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 Madea ...

Tyler Perry is more than just Madea. Along with the iconic, no-nonsense matriarch, the mastermind behind the 13-film franchise has taken on a handful of other roles throughout the Madea-verse over the ...

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 ...