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 ...

A Madea Family Funeral is a 2019 American comedy movie written, directed, and produced by Tyler Perry. It centers around Madea and her friends who find themselves unexpectedly planning a funeral ...

In October, Tyler Perry announced that he is retiring Madea, the tough, boisterous matriarch that the New Orleans native has portrayed for almost 20 years in a series of stage plays and films. But ...

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 ...

Mabel "Madea" Simmons is a character created and portrayed by Tyler Perry. The character is a tough elderly black woman. Madea has appeared in several plays directed by, written by, and starring Tyler ...

(CNN) — The curmudgeonly character of "Madea" has helped to make Tyler Perry wealthy, but it sounds like he's now over her. During an appearance on Bevy Smith's SiriusXM show, "Bevelations," Perry ...

The world hasn’t seen the last of Tyler Perry’s iconic, gun-slinging grandma, Mabel "Madea" Earlene Simmons! Just when fans thought Perry stepped out of the wig and housecoat for the last time in 2019 ...

It is no surprise that Tyler Perry's Madeahas created such a complex and seemingly never-ending family tree for itself, but luckily, there is a method to the madness. In 2005, Tyler Perry wrote the ...

Actor, filmmaker, comedian and playwright Tyler Perry says he is calling it quits on his "Madea" film franchise. "We're gonna say goodbye in 2019," he said during an interview with Bevy Smith Monday. ...