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 ...

Perri Nemiroff is the 2025 Press Award winner at the ICG Publicists Awards. She's the senior producer at Collider where she hosts and produces the interview series, Collider Ladies Night, a show ...

Tyler Perry‘s most famous character, Madea, has appeared in nearly half the director’s films: a gun-toting, “Hallelu-yer”-shouting force of nature, and an outrageous drag tribute to his mother and ...

'Tyler Perry's Madea's Farewell Play' might not be the last time we see the gun-toting matriarch. Here’s what Perry dished about the character's future. Before Perry struck creative gold in Hollywood, ...

Scene 1: Madea, a huge grandmother, bounces onto the stage, a tempest towering over other actors, instantly stealing the scene, the star of her own show. In this play, Madea wears black cat-eye ...

Tyler Perry has managed to sculpt an empire around Madea (full name Mabel Earlene Simmons), the no-nonsense matriarch he first portrayed in the 1999 play "I Can Do Bad All By Myself." Madea has a ...

Tyler Perry’s big, brassy, Craftsman-sized, Sears-housecoat-wearing auntie is back in the comedy, "Madea's Witness Protection." This time, she’s hosting a family headed by funny man Eugene Levy (SCTV, ...

Madea stars in her first animated movie! With her hilarious mix of sass and wisdom, Madea proves that behind her tough exterior is a lot of love. Violence/flashing images. (2015)(64 mins) ...