Known For
Acting
Born
Jun 20, 1980
Place of Birth
Queens, New York City, New York, USA
Credits
39 titles
Tika Sumpter
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.
Known For
Filmography
Sonic the Hedgehog 4
Maddie
ChikaBOOM!!
Watson
Dr. Laila Bynum
Sonic the Hedgehog 3
Maddie
Knuckles
Maddie Wachowski
The Underdoggs
Cherise
Survival of the Thickest
Simone
Sherri
Self - Guest
Sonic the Hedgehog 2
Maddie Wachowski
Sonic the Hedgehog
Maddie Wachowski
The Nomads
Cassey McNamara
mixed-ish
Alicia Johnson
Tamron Hall
Self - Guest
An Acceptable Loss
Elizabeth "Libby" Lamm
Nobody's Fool
Danica
The Old Man & the Gun
Maureen
Final Space
Quinn / Nightfall (voice)
Southside with You
Michelle Robinson
Ride Along 2
Angela Payton
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self - Guest
Bessie
Lucille
Get On Up
Yvonne Fair
My Man Is a Loser
Clarissa
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self
Ride Along
Angela
A Madea Christmas
Lacey
Tyler Perry's The Haves and the Have Nots
Candace Young
Sparkle
Delores
Think Like a Man
Dominic's Girlfriend
What's Your Number?
Jamie
Stomp the Yard 2: Homecoming
Nikki
Salt
Front Deskwoman
Gossip Girl
Raina Thorpe
Best Friend's Date
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self - Guest
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Vegas
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Self - Guest
Night Off
Director
Sisters in Italy
Billie