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09-13-2016, 06:58 PM
https://lebeauleblog.com/2016/09/13/september-13-happy-birthday-tyler-perry-and-jacqueline-bisset/
The multi-talented Tyler Perry, who celebrates his 47th birthday today (according to most sources; some say it’s tomorrow), was inspired to begin his career by an episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show on the therapeutic power of writing. He ended up creating the musical I Know I’ve Been Changed, the first of several successful plays. His second play, I Can Do Bad All By Myself, marks the first appearance of the character Madea—a tough-minded elderly black woman played by Perry himself—in his work; Perry adapted the play into a feature film in 2009. The character of Madea, along with a couple of others such as her brother Joe (also played by Perry), appears repeatedly in Perry’s plays as well as the films and television shows he has created:
The multi-talented Tyler Perry, who celebrates his 47th birthday today (according to most sources; some say it’s tomorrow), was inspired to begin his career by an episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show on the therapeutic power of writing. He ended up creating the musical I Know I’ve Been Changed, the first of several successful plays. His second play, I Can Do Bad All By Myself, marks the first appearance of the character Madea—a tough-minded elderly black woman played by Perry himself—in his work; Perry adapted the play into a feature film in 2009. The character of Madea, along with a couple of others such as her brother Joe (also played by Perry), appears repeatedly in Perry’s plays as well as the films and television shows he has created: