Hollywood: The richest US movie star is not well known to the general public!

Since 2005, you could see him playing more or less supporting roles in films like Star Trek (where he played Admiral Barnett), David Fincher’s Gone Girl, Vice (in which he played Colin Powell) or Don’t Look Up Yet.

If he had the main role in the thriller Alex Cross in 2012, Tyler Perry has never been the hero of a big-budget blockbuster, and obviously his name does not sound with the same intensity as the name of Tom Cruise or Dwayne Johnson. French public ears.

However, he is one of the richest people in the world of entertainment. Indeed, as early as 2011, Forbes magazine placed him at the top of the list of the highest-paid stars in the field.

In a new ranking published last February (Still at ForbesIt came in third place with $175 million for the year, behind Genesis and Sting.

But how did a man who, in the late 1990s, was forced to spend all his savings writing his first play (and slept in his car until his first success) managed to achieve such a financial situation?

In the early 2000s, his plays met with increasing success. This is especially true of her series called Madea, grandmother vigilante, in which she herself plays the main character, and which was quickly adapted into a movie. While the family saga was never really exported to France, it brought in nearly $500 million in the United States.

Earlier in his career, Tyler Perry also created the sitcom Payne’s House, which was quickly acquired by TBS.

Actor, screenwriter, producer, but also a director (he signed twenty of his films), Tyler Perry is a professional who is honored to be the exclusive owner of the content. In addition to his work as a filmmaker, he also signs a partnership with Viacom CBS that gives him a 25% stake in the video-on-demand service BET+.

In 2019, in Atlanta, he founded Tyler Perry Studios, a complex that is the largest film studio in the United States (more than 130 hectares) and in which, for example, Black Panther 2 or the Hawkeye series were filmed.

“All the decisions I made, good and bad, all showed me the way to get here. So I had to learn to follow, to trust what was right for me. To do it within myself and move forward.”she said In an interview with Forbes last June.

With a net worth of a billion dollars last January according to his Twitter account The world of statisticsTyler Perry would be the richest actor in the world today along with Jerry Seinfeld.

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