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 ...

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 ...

It is no surprise that Tyler Perry's Madeahas created such a complex and seemingly never-ending family tree for itself, but luckily, there is a method to the madness. In 2005, Tyler Perry wrote the ...

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 ...

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 ...

‘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 ...

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 ...