Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Eighteen years ago, Tyler Perry brought his DIY play to the big screen. Released in 2005, "Diary of a Mad Black Woman" chronicles ...

This year marks 20 years of Madea movies, dating back to her screen debut in 2005's Diary of a Mad Black Woman Perry tells PEOPLE he is "filled with a tremendous amount of pride" that the character ...

Mabel "Madea" Simmons is a character created and portrayed by Tyler Perry. The character is a tough elderly black woman. Madea has appeared in several plays directed by, written by, and starring Tyler ...

Tyler Perry‘s most famous character, Madea, has appeared in nearly half the director’s films: a gun-toting, “Hallelu-yer”-shouting force of nature, and an outrageous drag tribute to his mother and ...

Mabel "Madea" Simmons is a character created and portrayed by Tyler Perry. The character is a tough elderly black woman. Madea has appeared in several plays directed by, written by, and starring Tyler ...

If there’s one thing we can count on in this crazy, mixed-up world, it’s that Tyler Perry will never stop making Madea movies. Case in point: A new Madea movie, Madea’s Destination Wedding, began ...

Although the Madea franchise is still anathema to critics, this has not stopped its latest movie, Joe’s College Road Trip, from dominating Netflix’s most-watched chart in America this weekend. Tyler ...

The world hasn’t seen the last of Tyler Perry’s iconic, gun-slinging grandma, Mabel "Madea" Earlene Simmons! Just when fans thought Perry stepped out of the wig and housecoat for the last time in 2019 ...

Bringing sassy comfort to those who may have worried that Tyler Perry had forever ditched his housedress to play detective in the Alex Cross series, Lionsgate has announced via press release that it's ...

Tyler Perry has managed to sculpt an empire around Madea (full name Mabel Earlene Simmons), the no-nonsense matriarch he first portrayed in the 1999 play "I Can Do Bad All By Myself." Madea has a ...

Eighteen years ago, Tyler Perry brought his DIY play to the big screen. Released in 2005, “Diary of a Mad Black Woman” chronicles one beleaguered woman’s journey to healing and self-discovery after ...