Moreover, on numerous occasions, Madea has accepted family members who were without a place to stay into her home on her own accord. This is heavily evidenced in Gets a Job, in which Madea provides life lessons, guidance, and direction to all the residents and staff members of a nursing home. Despite her outrageous and shocking behaviors, Madea is consultative, protective, loving, and motherly at heart.
Madea is very scurrilous, wise-cracking, and saucy in remarks and behavior, and she is full of comical sass and vulgar and abusive language. It is heavily implied that she was a hooker as well. In the films, it has been revealed that Madea used to be a stripper, and her stage names were Platinum and Delicious. When Madea was 16, her parents moved her and the rest of her immediate family to Atlanta, Georgia, in a barn house. Washington High School, where she served as a cheerleader.
It is also reported that Madea was charged with her first felony at this age, and her crimes began progressing to illegal gambling at age 18. As a result, Madea grew up with little knowledge of Baptism.Īt age 9, Madea became a lifelong criminal with a charge of petty theft. She even claimed that her daddy would go outside and hunt for dogs and cook them on the stove to eat for dinner. She has stated that although her family didn't have much, they had love. Madea was brought up in poverty and grew up living in a shotgun house with her parents and siblings.
Her maiden name is unknown, but it is presumably either Baker or Murphy as they were the last names of her father and mother, respectively.
Madea was born in Greensburg, Louisiana, on June 26, 1935, and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. Madea serves as the titular main protagonist of Madea's Family Reunion, Madea's Big Happy Family, Madea's Witness Protection, A Madea Christmas, Madea's Tough Love, Boo! A Madea Halloween, the 2017 Halloween sequel, and A Madea Family Funeral, the titular deuteragonist of Diary of a Mad Black Woman and Madea Goes to Jail, and a minor character in Meet the Browns and I Can Do Bad All by Myself.