Perry has created multiple scripted series for the network, The Haves and the Have Nots crime drama being its most successful. The partnership was largely for the sake of bringing scripted television to OWN, based on Perry's previous success in this area. In 2012, Perry struck an exclusive multi-year partnership with Oprah Winfrey and her Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN).
In 2011, Forbes listed him as the highest-paid man in entertainment, earning US$130 million between May 2010 and May 2011. He also developed several television series, most notably Tyler Perry's House of Payne, which ran for eight seasons on TBS from 2006 to 2012. Perry wrote and produced many stage plays during the 1990s and early 2000s. Many of his stage-play films have been subsequently adapted as feature films. Perry's films vary in style from orthodox filmmaking techniques to filmed productions of live stage plays. He is the creator and performer of the Madea character, a tough elderly woman. Tyler Perry (born Emmitt Perry Jr., September 13, 1969) is an American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter.
