CULTURETECHLENSMadea
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Combined Graph record U-02074 · provenance: canonical master store (CSV), record CTL-W-0966. Master record source: CTL seed 2026-10-16 — UNVERIFIED, verify before public citation.
No-nonsense gun-toting matriarch
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No-nonsense gun-toting matriarch
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- Also known as: Mabel Simmons, portrayed by Tyler Perry
- Work type: character
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- Diary of a Mad Black Woman — featured in
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- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/tyler-perry-b-1969/ (verification source · master store)
Evidence note (master store)
Madea is Tyler Perry's signature character, a gun-toting grandmother, created and performed by Perry (New Georgia Encyclopedia: Perry's 'signature character, Madea, whom he has portrayed in both stage plays and films'; 'Played by Perry'). Madea appears in Perry's first feature film, Diary of a Mad Black Woman (2005), in which Perry plays three roles including Madea (New Georgia Encyclopedia). Perry introduced Madea in his 2000 stage play I Can Do Bad All by Myself and featured her in his 2001 play Diary of a Mad Black Woman (New Georgia Encyclopedia).
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