Tyler Perry
- Birthplace: New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
- Birthday: September 13, 1969
During the first decade of the 21st century, Tyler Perry emerged as not only a screenwriter, producer, director and film star, but as a media brand. With his endless supply of family-based morality tales espousing positive messages of faith and personal perseverance, Perry struck a chord with legions of middle- and upper-class African-American audiences alienated by hip-hop culture and lowbrow urban comedies. The “church basement play” quality of his offerings actually came straight from the Southern church circuit, where Perry began his ca…more