Madea gets coaxed into helping a friend pay her daughter a surprise visit in the country for Christmas, but the biggest surprise is what they'll find when they arrive. As the small, rural town ...

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 ...

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 is back and unleashing his signature character on unsuspecting yuletide revelers this holiday season, and we have a look behind the scenes of Tyler Perry's A Madea Christmas, in theaters ...

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 ...

As the holidays approach, we're all getting ready to sit down and watch our favorite festive movies. Ahead of the festive season, one of Tyler Perry's biggest critical flops, which has gained a ...

Madea is taking over the holidays in Tyler Perry’s A Madea Christmas. The first trailer for the film shows Madea playing Mrs. Claus, and she’s everything but jolly. “Y’all been to the North Pole? So ...

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 Is Retiring Madea After One More Movie, 'Family Funeral' Geoffrey Owens Takes Tyler Perry's Job Offer on 'The Have and the Have Nots' Tyler Perry's New Movie Title Was a Top Dictionary ...

‘Jingle All the Way,’ ‘A Madea Christmas,’ ‘Snowglobe’ and ‘Unaccompanied Minors’ are some of the Christmas movies you should skip. As much as we love a comforting, heartwarming holiday story, not all ...

Someday there will be a serious academic study on Tyler Perry, the battered and sexually abused child who legally changed his first name at 16 to distance himself from his estranged father and grew ...