Career Stage Īround 1990, Perry moved to Atlanta, where two years later I Know I've Been Changed was first performed at a community theater, financed by the 22-year-old Perry's $12,000 life savings.
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He soon started writing a series of letters to himself, which became the basis for the musical I Know I've Been Changed. This comment inspired him to apply himself to a career in writing. In his early 20s, watching an episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show, he heard someone describe the sometimes therapeutic effect the act of writing can have, enabling the author to work out his or her own problems.
While Perry did not complete high school, he earned a GED. A DNA test taken by Perry indicated that Emmitt Sr. Many years later, after seeing the film Precious, Perry was moved to reveal for the first time that he had been molested by a friend's mother at age 10 he was also molested by three men prior to this and later learned his own father had molested his friend. At age 16, he had his first name legally changed from Emmitt to Tyler in an effort to distance himself from his father. In contrast to his father, his mother took him to church each week, where he sensed a certain refuge and contentment. As a child, Perry once went so far as to attempt suicide in an effort to escape his father's beatings. Perry once said his father's answer to everything was to "beat it out of you". in New Orleans, Louisiana, the son of Willie Maxine Perry ( née Campbell) and Emmitt Perry Sr., a carpenter.
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Perry has also acted in films not directed, written or produced by himself, including as Admiral Barnett in Star Trek (2009), the titular character in Alex Cross (2012), Tanner Bolt in Gone Girl (2014), Baxter Stockman in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows (2016), Colin Powell in Vice (2018), Arthur in Those Who Wish Me Dead (2021), Gus the Truck Driver in PAW Patrol: The Movie (2021), and Jack Bremmer in Don't Look Up (2021). The Haves and the Have Nots gave OWN some of its highest ratings during its 8 year series run, the program hailed as "one of OWN's biggest success stories with its weekly dose of soapy fun, filled with the typical betrayals, affairs and manipulations." Perry has created multiple scripted series for the network, The Haves and the Have Nots crime drama being its most successful. The partnership was largely for the sake of bringing scripted television to OWN, based on Perry's previous success in this area. On October 2, 2012, Perry struck an exclusive multi-year partnership with Oprah Winfrey and her Oprah Winfrey Network. Perry has developed several television series, most notably Tyler Perry's House of Payne, which ran for eight seasons on TBS from Jto August 10, 2012. Perry wrote and produced many stage plays during the 1990s and early 2000s. Many of Perry's stage-play films have been subsequently adapted as feature films. Perry's films vary in style from orthodox filmmaking techniques to filmed productions of live stage plays. Perry created and performs the Madea character, a tough elderly woman.
In 2011, Forbes listed him as the highest-paid man in entertainment, earning US$130 million between May 2010 and May 2011. Tyler Perry (born Emmitt Perry Jr., September 13, 1969) is an American actor, director, producer and screenwriter.