Tyler perry biography video waltz

Tyler Perry is an African American actor, director, playwright, screenwriter, producer, and author. Already a successful artist in Southern theater, Perry began to make national celebrity status in 2005 with the release of his first movie, Diary of a Mad Black Woman.

In 2009, Perry was ranked by Forbes magazine as the sixth highest-paid man in Hollywood.

Tyler perry biography video waltz

Born Emmitt Perry Jr. in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1969, he lived with his mother, an abusive father and three siblings. Tyler's childhood was far from perfect. He was tortured by his father's beatings. Perry once said of his father, "his only answer to everything was to beat it out of you." As a child, Perry once went so far as to attempt suicide in an effort to escape his father's beatings.

In contrast to his father, his mother took him to church each week, where he sensed a certain refuge and contentment. At the age of sixteen Emmitt Perry Jr. legally changed his name to Tyler in an effort to dis