Tika Sumpter

Born: 1980-06-20 in Queens, New York City, New York, USA

Known For: Acting

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.

Filmography

2024

Sonic the Hedgehog 3 as Maddie
The Underdoggs as Cherise
Knuckles as Maddie Wachowski

2023

Survival of the Thickest as Simone

2022

Sherri as Self - Guest
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 as Maddie Wachowski

2020

Sonic the Hedgehog as Maddie Wachowski

2019

Tamron Hall as Self - Guest
mixed-ish as Alicia Johnson
The Nomads as Cassey McNamara
An Acceptable Loss as Elizabeth "Libby" Lamm

2018

Final Space as Quinn / Nightfall (voice)
Nobody's Fool as Danica
The Old Man & the Gun as Maureen

2016

Southside with You as Michelle Robinson
Ride Along 2 as Angela Payton

2015

Bessie as Lucille

2014

Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self
Ride Along as Angela
Get on Up as Yvonne Fair
My Man Is a Loser as Clarissa

2013

Tyler Perry's The Haves and the Have Nots as Candace Young
A Madea Christmas as Lacey

2012

Sparkle as Delores
Think Like a Man as Dominic's Girlfriend

2011

What's Your Number? as Jamie

2010

Salt as Front Deskwoman
Stomp the Yard 2: Homecoming as Nikki

2007

Gossip Girl as Raina Thorpe