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Tyler Perry (born Emmitt Perry Jr.; September 13, 1969) is an American actor, filmmaker, television writer, television producer, television director, theatre director, theatre producer, playwright, author, and songwriter, specializing in the gospel genre. Perry wrote and produced many stage plays during the 1990s and early 2000s. In 2011, ''Forbes'' named him the highest paid man in entertainment; he earned US$130 million between May 2010 and 2011. Perry is known for both creating and performing as the Madea character, a tough elderly woman. Perry also creates films, some produced as live recordings of stage plays, and others professionally filmed using full sets and locations with full editing. Perry is estimated to have earned around US$75 million by 2008.〔("Tyler Perry, Simon Cowell Share Hollywood, Forbes in Common" ). Singersroom.〕 Many of Perry's stage-play films have been subsequently adapted as professional films. Perry has also created several television shows, his most successful of which is ''Tyler Perry's House of Payne'', a show that ran for eight seasons on TBS from June 21, 2006, to August 10, 2012. On October 2, 2012, Perry struck an exclusive multi-year partnership with Oprah Winfrey and her Oprah Winfrey Network. The partnership was largely for the purposes of bringing scripted television to the OWN network, Perry having had previous success in this department. Perry has created multiple scripted series for the network, the most successful being ''The Haves and the Have Nots''. As of 2014, ''The Haves and the Have Nots'' has given OWN its highest ratings to date. The series has also been critically acclaimed as being "one of OWN's biggest success stories with its weekly dose of soapy fun, filled with the typical betrayals, affairs, manipulations and a bitch slap or two." ==Early life== Perry was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, as Emmitt Perry Jr., the son of Willie Maxine Perry (née Campbell) and Emmitt Perry, Sr., a carpenter. He has three siblings. Perry once said his father's "answer to everything was to beat it out of you".〔 As a child, Perry once went so far as to attempt suicide in an effort to escape his father's beatings. In contrast to his father, his mother took him to church each week, where he sensed a certain refuge and contentment. At age 16, he had his first name legally changed from Emmitt to Tyler in an effort to distance himself from his father. Many years later, after seeing the film ''Precious'', he was moved to relate for the first time〔("Tyler Perry recounts childhood abuse on Web site" ). CNN. October 6, 2009.〕 accounts of being 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. A DNA test Perry recently took confirmed that Emmitt Sr. is not Perry's biological father. While Perry did not complete high school, he earned a GED. 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. This comment inspired him to apply himself to a career in writing. He soon started writing a series of letters to himself, which became the basis for the musical ''I Know I've Been Changed''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.natpe.org/conference/speakers/bios/index.jsp?speaker_id_string=3734:PYjS-98ZaG7syvaDDO6NpA * * )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tyler Perry」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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