Chandra Currelley-Young

65, from Jacksonville, Florida, USA

Artwork for A Madea Family FuneralImage of Chandra Currelley-Young

Biography

Chandra Currelley-Young is an American actress and singer. Currelley has done extensive work with director and writer Tyler Perry, and has played many roles in his various productions and several stage plays.

She was a member of the SOS Band from the late 1980s up until 1992, when Chandra left the band to pursue a career in acting and theater.[2] Because of her background in theater, Currelley-Young was selected by Debbie Allen to be the featured soloist in her production "Soul Possessed" which debuted at the Alliance Theater in Atlanta, GA.

She was asked to perform in the 1995 Apollo Revival of The Wiz as Evillene The Wicked Witch of The West and was then selectively chosen to act in David Petrarca's hit production, Dinah Was, the story of singer Dinah Washington.

She established her acting career by appearing in Tyler Perry's Madea's Big Happy Family and many other of his productions.

Timeline

2025Aged 64

  • Poster for The Love Doctor

    Aunt Barbara

2023Aged 62

  • Poster for A Dark Way Out

    Mrs. Stapleton

2019Aged 58

  • Poster for A Madea Family Funeral

    Miss V

2017Aged 56

  • Poster for Making Moves

    Mom (as Chandra Currelley)

2012Aged 51

  • Poster for Tyler Perry's Madea Gets A Job - The Play

    Barbara

2011Aged 50

  • Poster for Madea's Big Happy Family

    Sister Laura

  • Poster for Laugh to Keep from Crying

    Belinda

  • Poster for Tyler Perry's A Madea Christmas - The Play

    Lillian

2010Aged 49

  • Poster for Tyler Perry's Madea's Big Happy Family - The Play

    Shirley

2008Aged 47

  • Poster for Tyler Perry's What's Done In The Dark - The Play

    Brenda Rhodes

2005Aged 44

  • Poster for Diary of a Mad Black Woman

    Chandra

2003Aged 42

  • Poster for Madea's Class Reunion - The Play

    Emma