This year marks 20 years of Madea movies, dating back to her screen debut in 2005's Diary of a Mad Black Woman Perry tells PEOPLE he is "filled with a tremendous amount of pride" that the character ...

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 ...

The director will premiere his latest feature, 'A Jazzman's Blues,' on Sept. 11 at the Toronto International Film Festival. By Mia Galuppo Senior Entertainment Reporter “I am extremely excited for ...

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 ...

Boo! A Madea Halloween was the number-one movie over this past weekend, baffling Hollywood once again and making the Hotep crowd pissed that a movie starring a black guy in a dress made more money ...

The latest installment of writer/director/actor Tyler Perry's Madea movies continues his now-familiar formula: a feel-good melodrama using Madea as comic relief. Perry's films certainly succeed as ...

Celebrating 20 years of Madea movies, Tyler Perry tells PEOPLE, "To see people are still watching and enjoying is a wonderful thing" Save the date for Tyler Perry's next Madea adventure. PEOPLE has an ...