Chandra Currelley-Young
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.
Acting
Movie
A Madea Family Funeral
as Miss V
2019
Movie
Diary of a Mad Black Woman
as Chandra
2005
Movie
Madea's Big Happy Family
as Sister Laura
2011
Movie
Madea's Class Reunion - The Play
as Emma
2003
Movie
Tyler Perry's Madea Gets A Job - The Play
as Barbara
2012
Movie
Tyler Perry's Madea's Big Happy Family - The Play
as Shirley
2010
TV
Tyler Perry's For Better or Worse
as Ms. V.
2011
Movie
Tyler Perry's A Madea Christmas - The Play
as Lillian
2011
TV
Tyler Perry's Bruh
as Alice
2020
Movie
Tyler Perry's What's Done In The Dark - The Play
as Brenda Rhodes
2008
Movie
Laugh to Keep from Crying
as Belinda
2011
Movie
A Dark Way Out
as Mrs. Stapleton
2023
Movie
Making Moves
as Mom (as Chandra Currelley)
2017
Movie
The Love Doctor
as Aunt Barbara
2025