Tyler Perry

By Mallory Potosky
URL: http://www.moviemaker.com/blog/item/tyler_perry/
It was on this day in 1969 that comedian Tyler Perry was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. Although now a million-dollar success story, life wasn't always so funny for this moviemaker. As a young boy growing up in the South, the effects of poverty all around him, Perry began to use the written word as a means of escape.