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Tyler Perry

His life is the ultimate rags-to-riches story. Once a homeless high school dropout, Perry is now a multimillionaire award-winning writer, director, producer and actor. The mastermind behind Madea made history last year as the first Black person to own and operate a film and television studio in the United States.

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Great great man.

Posted at 9:52AM on August 5th 2009 by Tee

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Drum roll pleaseeee and that man is the one and only Mr TYLER PERRY. Thank you......

Posted at 12:35PM on July 9th 2009 by Carol Billy

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