Tyler Perry has played Madea in over a dozen movies to date. Here's how to watch the films (as well as the plays and TV shows ...

For 20 years, Tyler Perry’s Madea has delivered laughs, tough love and some valuable life lessons in between. Madea, short for Mabel Simmons, is the no-filter grandmother figure fans have grown to ...

With his creation Mabel “Madea” Simmons, here starring in her seventh film, Tyler Perry has built a franchise around barking disciplinarian, commonsense solutions to societal ills — and being that ...

When ESSENCE.com caught up with Tyler Perry this week, he was in the middle of promoting his latest movie, Madea’s Witness Protection, wrapping up his next movie The Marriage Counselor (while fending ...

Madea has been through it all. She has gone to jail, caused chaos at a family reunion, had a homecoming, and she's even had to host a family that was in witness protection. There's so much more the ...

Tyler Perry is one of the most stacked filmmakers of his generation — and one of the most distinct, with his melding of comedy and melodrama. Across a few dozen films, most of which he directed, Perry ...