TYLER PERRY'S TEMPTATION Production Notes - Visual Hollywood

TYLER PERRY'S TEMPTATION (2013)
PRODUCTION NOTES
Robbie is also currently starring in "90210" on the CW and in "Necessary Roughness" on USA
Network. Robbie's other television credits include "One Tree Hill," "Hawaii Five-O," "Southland,"
"Dark Blue," "Hellcats," and the Syfy pilot "Rewind." His stunning performances opposite Academy
Award winners Forest Whitaker in Hurricane Season and Angela Bassett on "ER" are among
his most memorable.
Robbie hails from Sacramento California. He attended Cal Berkeley where he starred on the
bastketball court. Robbie currently plays basketball in The Entertainment League (E League) alongside
Ice Cube, Don Cheadle, Justin Timberlake and Jamie Foxx.
A long-time music aficionado, Robbie is the much sought-after celebrity DJ "DJ RJ."
RENÉE TAYLOR (Ms. Waco Chapman) Renee got her first professional acting part at fifteen – a
slave girl in The Purim Pageant at Madison Square Garden. She went on to become a member of
the Actors Studio and has studied with some of the greatest acting teachers of the last century, most
notably, eleven years with Lee Strassberg. Her career since then has been split between acting and
writing. As an actress, she has appeared in numerous plays and movies, among them: The Errand
Boy, The Producers, The Last of the Red Hot Lovers, The Detective, White Palace, and Alfie. But
she is most recognized as Sylvia Fine, Fran Drescher's mother on "The Nanny." Currently, she can
be seen in recurring roles in three other TV shows: "How I Met Your Mother," "Happily Divorced,"
and "Shake It Up;" and her voice can be heard on the Fox animated series "Bob's Burgers." She has
just completed major roles in two feature films: Tyler Perry's Temptation and Zarra's Law, opposite
Tony Sirico.
As a writer/actress, in collaboration with her husband of forty-seven years, Joe Bologna, she cowrote
and co-starred in the Broadway play Lovers and Other Strangers. They collaborated on the
screenplay for the movie version and for it received an Academy Award® nomination. They then
co-wrote and co-starred in the original feature film Made for Each Other, They received an Emmy®
Award for co-writing the TV special, "Acts of Love and Other Comedies."
They co-wrote and co-starred in the TV special "Bedrooms," for which they received a Writers
Guild of America Award. They also created the TV series "Calucci's Department" on CBS. They
co-wrote and co-starred in the feature film, It Had to be You, based on another of their Broadway
plays. They shared the same duties and also co-directed the original feature film, Love Is All There
Is, casting Angelina Jolie in her first starring role. They have co-written and co-starred in two other
Broadway plays, Bermuda Avenue Triangle and the semi-autobiographical If You Ever Leave Me,
I'm Going With You. Also in publication is Love Allways, a compilation of their short plays that
have been performed around the world. Along with their other efforts, Miss Taylor and Mr. Bologna
have produced one son, one grandson, many dogs and cats, and one very bossy bird.
ELLA JOYCE (Sarah) Ella is remembered and beloved in the community for her television role of
"Eleanor" on TV's family sitcom "Roc" which earned her a NAACP Image Award Nomination. Her
many TV Guest star appearances include the recurring role of Jasmine on "My Wife & Kids," Mama
Pearl on "Eve," Annabeth on "The Jamie Foxx Show," and Porsche Langford on "In The
House" and "Seinfeld" as the Dean of NYU.
Numerous film credits include Detective Waller in the popular action film "Set It Off," the Nurse in
"Bubba Ho-Tep," "Selma, Lord Selma" (working again with Jurnee Smollett-Bell), "Forbidden
Fruits," "Dead Of Winter," "Uncle P," "Who Made The Potato Salad?""Stranger Inside," and the
suffering young Mother in the famous, classic MTV Award winning music video –
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