Perry's attorney told PEOPLE in a June 2025 statement that they "are confident these fabricated claims of harassment will fail" Derek Dixon sued Tyler Perry in June 2025 ... stage inspired him to ...

Tyler Perry’s First Screenplay ‘A Jazzman’s Blues’ To Premiere On Netflix. Marc Griffin. Tue, August 2, ... Initially, I wanted to play the lead role of Bayou, but that was 1995.

Terrell Carter, who plays Varney in the series, has worked with Perry several times in the past, first on-stage in Madea’s Class Reunion and Meet the Browns before graduating to film with Perry ...

Perry's first to acknowledge just how far he's come since the early '00s, when he was taking meetings about turning his play Diary of a Mad Black Woman into a movie and one studio exec after ...

Tyler Perry covered some new narrative ground with 2012’s Madea’s Witness Protection, the first in the franchise not based on or inspired by one of his plays.

Filmmaker and media mogul Tyler Perry has struck a new, multi-year first-look deal with Netflix that will see him write, direct and produce features for the streamer.. News of the creative ...

Tyler Perry Announces 'Madea's Farewell' Stage Play Tour Tyler Perry's popular character will appear in a movie for the last time in 2019. But first, he is taking her on the road.