Director and actor
Tyler Perry averages 5.31, Taraji P. Henson averages 6.21. Apart that suggests 5.76; together they average 5.63, a lift of −0.13.
Lift is the average of their films together minus the mean of their two career averages.
2009
2018
2025BestDot size shows IMDb votes; lines are rolling five-film averages. Films with fewer than 1,000 votes are left out.
Each column is a film in release order. Filled squares mark who was in it, colored by the film's rating.
| The Family That Preys | 2008 | 6.1 | 8,810 | Writer, as Ben, Producer, Director | as Pam (not counted) |
 I Can Do Bad All by Myself | 2009 | 4.8 | 11,294 | Producer, as Madea, Director, Writer | as April |
 Acrimony | 2018 | 5.9 | 11,034 | Writer, Director, Producer | as Melinda |
 Straw | 2025 | 6.5 | 32,447 | Writer, Director, Producer | as Janiyah Wiltkinson |
| Why Did I Get Married Again? | 2026 | 5.3 | 2,122 | as Terry, Producer, Director, Writer | as Roselyn |
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| Janet Jackson |
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| Tamela J. Mann |
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| Whoopi Goldberg |
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| Gabrielle Union |
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