Biography
American actor Tyler Perry also became famous as director, producer and screenwriter. Back in 2011, Forbes counted him to the richest personalities in the field of entertainment, and then his condition was estimated at $ 130 million. And in the 2020th Time magazine included Perry into a hundred of the most influential people of the planet.Childhood and youth
Perry was born on September 13, 1969 in New Orleans. His parents are Willie Maxin, nee Campbell, and Emmitt Perry, a carpenter by profession. The boy was named after the Father, however, at the age of 16, he took the name Tyler in order to make a connection with his parent as much as possible. Their relationship was not smooth: the boy tolerated the morals and the beatings, with whom the father out of him "ducklings."
Every Sunday mother drove Perry with brothers and sisters to church, where he found a comfort and spiritual family. However, despair often visited his soul that he barely did not bring a guy to suicide. Later, he confessed that in childhood he experienced harassment by an adult woman, in addition to this, also tolerated the bunch of men.
Tyler did not graduate from school, but always felt the potential to engage in creativity. For example, he wrote to himself letters that had the effect of psychotherapy, and later issued them in the play "I know that I was changed." Perry produced random earnings and at that time lived in the car. He wrote the first play at 18 and then he did not guessed that he would work huge money.
In the 1990th, the guy moved to Atlanta and put on his own accumulation "I know that I was changed" in the city theater. The play mentioned the Christian virtues, human dignity and the problems of social disadvantaged and family cruelty were raised. At first, the production was made cool, and Tyler suffered a commercial collapse. However, he did not despair and modified the musical, so that 8 years later, the restart brought him a success and a large number of devotees among the African American audience.
Films
Thanks to his dramaturgical gift, Perry has made a state by the time when he took up his debut film "Diary of a crazy black woman." This comedy melodrama came out in 2005, and Tyler spoke in it by an actor, producer and script author. At that time, he already founded his own studio. The picture was mixed and, mostly, negative feedback from critics, while the cash fees spoke about the opposite: already in the first weekend, the tape collected over $ 21 million in the box office.
From this film began the history of the old woman, which Perry himself embodied on the screen, having taken into a female dress. Later, he repeatedly returned to the favorite character in the "Madhea in prison" tapes, "My own mistakes", "big happy family of Mademy", "Christmas Madey", "Madey at the funeral". A series of films about an energetic fun grandmother collected a solid cashier in the United States, finding the complacency response of the African American audience.
The next project Perry got up with Sitkom "House of the Pan family", the premiere of which was held in the summer of 2006. The series was so requested by the audience, which lasted on the air for 8 seasons, and in five of them Tyler was a director.
In 2009, Perry first played in the project not its own "manufacturing". It was the role of the commandant of the Star Fleet Academy Admiral Richard Barnett in the movie "Star Path".
Another noticeable picture in the acting film from Tyler was the Thiller David Fincher "The disappeared" with Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike in high roles. There Perry performed in the form of a lawyer, breaking the stereotypes of the viewer who used to see him in comedy role.
In 2016, Tyler played the villain of Baksterkman's villain at all in the film franchise "Ninja Turtle - 2" in addition to this, he starred in Oscar-free tape Adam McKea "Power", where Christian Bale, Amy Adams and Sam Rockwell became its partners in the shooting area.
All this time, Perry did not leave his own projects: put the plays, filmed a movie. In 2020, he sterled and put the series "ruthless", in the center of the plot of which a woman named Ruth. She abducts a little daughter to join a dark and criminal religious cult. At the same time, the comedy series "Yang Dylan Tyler Perry" was released, dedicated to the biography of a young rebellion, who moved to live in a new family and turns everything out of his legs.
Personal life
Despite success in Hollywood, Perry does not leave his native land and lives in Atlanta, where he is engaged in the management of film and television studios. It owns more than 1000 acres of land in Georgia, and his house is estimated at tens of millions of dollars. In addition, the celebrity acquired estate in Malkolland Esteits, California, and also bought real estate for recreation in Wyoming and on the Bahamas.
Tyler is a convinced Christian, but it did not make it an exemplary family man. In December 2014, Perry's girlfriend, Ethiopka Helila Bekele, gave birth to the son of Aman, but did not receive proposals and hearts from his beloved man. He defiantly remained a bachelor, although they began to meet in 2007. In the 2020s, the pair broke up, remaining close friends and parents of the common child. The actor commented on the changes in personal life, placing the photo in "Instagram", where he told the subscribers that alone, but going to be the best father.
Tyler Perry now
Now Tyler continues to actively remove and create its own projects, among which the series "girlfriends", "Immover and the poor" and "Oval Cabinet". In 2021, he also appeared in a political comedy "Do not look up", where he played with the stars of stars - Leonardo di Caprio, Jennifer Lawrence, Kate Blanchett and Meryl Streep.Filmography
- 2005 - "Diary of a crazy black woman"
- 2006 - "Reunion of the Mademy family"
- 2007 - "Why do we get married?"
- 2008 - "Acquaintance with Browns"
- 2009 - "Made in Prison"
- 2009 - "Star Way"
- 2009 - "My own mistakes"
- 2010 - "Why do we get married again?"
- 2011 - "Great happy family of Madey"
- 2012 - "Good actions"
- 2012 - "I, Alex Cross"
- 2014 - "Club of Lonely Mom"
- 2014 - "Disappeared"
- 2016 - "Ninja Turtles 2"
- 2016 - "Mind on fire"
- 2018 - "Power"
- 2019 - "Madey at the Funeral"
- 2020 - "Falling"
- 2021 - "Those who wish me death"
- 2021 - "Do not look up"