American filmmaker and actor, creator of the Madea films, who played Admiral Richard Barnett, head of the Starfleet Academy board, in the 2009 Star Trek film.
Tyler Perry is an American actor, writer, director and producer, born in 1969, who built a large independent film and television business around his stage plays and the character Madea.
In Star Trek (2009) he appears as Admiral Richard Barnett, who presides over the Academy hearing at which cadet James T. Kirk is accused by Spock of cheating on the Kobayashi Maru simulation. The hearing is cut short by the distress call from Vulcan. Barnett returns at the end of the film to give Kirk a commendation and command of the Enterprise.
It was one of the first screen roles Perry took in a film he had not written or directed himself; he later acted in Gone Girl and Vice.