Tika Sumpter
Known For
Acting
Born
1980-06-20 in Queens, New York City, New York, USA
Biography
Euphemia LatiQue "Tika" Sumpter (born June 20, 1980) is an American actress and producer. Sumpter began her career as the host of Best Friend's Date. From 2005 to 2010, she appeared in the daytime soap opera One Life to Live. In 2010, she made her film debut in Stomp the Yard: Homecoming and later featured in supporting roles for What's Your Number? (2011), Sparkle(2012), and A Madea Christmas (2013). From 2013 to 2021, Sumpter starred as Candace Young in the OWN prime-time soap opera The Haves and the Have Nots. During that time, she starred in the action comedy film Ride Along(2014) and its sequel Ride Along 2 (2016), the biographical drama Get On Up (2014), the crime drama The Old Man & the Gun (2018), and the romantic comedy Nobody's Fool (2018). In 2016, she produced and starred as Michelle Robinson Obama in the biographical romantic drama film Southside with You, receiving the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture nomination. From 2019 to 2021, she starred in the ABC comedy series, Mixed-ish. She later starred as Maddie Wachowski in the action-adventure comedy film Sonic the Hedgehog (2020), its 2022 and 2024 sequel, and she appeared in the spin-off show Knuckles. Appeared in Gossip Girl. Description above from the Wikipedia article Tika Sumpter, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Most Known For
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Vegas
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self
Gossip Girl
as Raina Thorpe
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
as Self - Guest
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
as Self - Guest
Sherri
as Self - Guest
Tamron Hall
as Self - Guest
Sonic the Hedgehog 3
as Maddie
Sonic the Hedgehog
as Maddie Wachowski
Sonic the Hedgehog 2
as Maddie Wachowski
Final Space
as Quinn / Nightfall (voice)
Tyler Perry's The Haves and the Have Nots
as Candace Young
Knuckles
as Maddie Wachowski
mixed-ish
as Alicia Johnson
Salt
as Front Deskwoman
Survival of the Thickest
as Simone
What's Your Number?
as Jamie
Ride Along
as Angela
Ride Along 2
as Angela Payton
Think Like a Man
as Dominic's Girlfriend