Tika Sumpter
Actor
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.
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Filmography
Salt
as Front Deskwoman 2010
Sonic the Hedgehog 2
as Maddie Wachowski 2022
Sonic the Hedgehog 3
as Maddie 2024
What's Your Number?
as Jamie 2011
Ride Along
as Angela 2014
Ride Along 2
as Angela Payton 2016
The Old Man & the Gun
as Maureen 2018
Think Like a Man
as Dominic's Girlfriend 2012
Get on Up
as Yvonne Fair 2014
Nobody's Fool
as Danica 2018
Southside with You
as Michelle Robinson 2016
The Underdoggs
as Cherise 2024
A Madea Christmas
as Lacey 2013
Bessie
as Lucille 2015
Sparkle
as Delores 2012
Stomp the Yard 2: Homecoming
as Nikki 2010