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Atlanta, Georgia. He has been based there since the late 1990s and built Tyler Perry Studios on the site of the former Fort McPherson army base in the south of the city, a 330-acre campus with twelve sound stages. He also owns property elsewhere in the United States, but Atlanta is the working base for essentially everything he makes. Sources: Tyler Perry Studios, Variety.

He is American. Tyler Perry was born Emmitt Perry Jr. in New Orleans, Louisiana, on September 13, 1969, and legally changed his first name to Tyler at 16. Sources: Britannica, Tyler Perry Studios.

He is 56 years old and turns 57 on September 13, 2026. He was born on September 13, 1969. Sources: Britannica, Variety.

He is commonly listed at 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m), which makes him one of the tallest figures working in front of the camera in American comedy. His height is part of why the Madea costume reads the way it does on screen. Sources: Britannica, IMDb.

Estimates vary widely and none of them come from him. Forbes reported him as a billionaire in 2020, and current public estimates for 2026 range from roughly $850 million to $1.4 billion depending on the outlet and on how the studio real estate is valued. Treat all of these as outside estimates rather than confirmed figures. Sources: Forbes, Celebrity Net Worth.

Beauty in Black season 3, which began streaming on Netflix on August 27, 2026. Netflix has already renewed the series for a fourth season. The drama, created and written by Perry, has been one of the platform's steadier performers since its 2024 debut. Sources: Netflix, What's on Netflix.

Friday, October 2, 2026, globally on Netflix. Doing Life is a drama written and directed by Perry, starring Naomi Baker and Jay Reeves. It is the next entry in his long-running output deal with the platform. Sources: Netflix, What's on Netflix.

A new specialty label from Tyler Perry Studios, announced in 2026 and named after Perry's mother, Maxine. Its stated purpose is to widen theatrical opportunities for filmmakers with distinctive voices, which is a notable turn for a studio whose recent output has been heavily streaming-first. Source: Variety.

Paramount Skydance bought out Tyler Perry's stake in BET+ and announced the service would be phased out, with its content folded into Paramount+. Perry had been a founding content partner of the streamer since its 2019 launch. Source: Variety.

Madea is the character Perry plays himself, in drag: an elderly, blunt, gun-adjacent Southern grandmother who first appeared in his stage plays in the late 1990s and became the centre of a film franchise from Diary of a Mad Black Woman (2005) onwards. She is the single biggest reason his early films found an audience that Hollywood was not serving. Sources: Britannica, Lionsgate.

330 acres in south Atlanta, on the former Fort McPherson site, opened in 2019 with twelve sound stages and permanent standing sets. In 2026 the studio signed a multi-year deal with Synapse Virtual Production to add a virtual production stage on the campus, expected to be operational by the end of the year. Sources: Tyler Perry Studios, Variety.

In theatre, not film. He wrote and self-produced touring stage plays through the 1990s on the circuit sometimes called the chitlin' circuit, losing money for years before the shows started selling out. That audience followed him into cinemas in 2005 and gave him the leverage to finance and eventually own his own production. Sources: Britannica, Variety.

No. He has a son, Aman, born in 2014. Perry has consistently kept his private life out of his publicity, and there is no verified marriage on record. Sources: Britannica, People.