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.
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Acting (20 movies)
Stomp the Yard 2: Homecoming
2010
Sparkle
2012
Ride Along
2014
A Madea Christmas
2013
Get on Up
2014
My Man Is a Loser
2014
Sonic the Hedgehog 3
2024
Southside with You
2016
The Underdoggs
2024
Ride Along 2
2016
Bessie
2015
What's Your Number?
2011
The Old Man & the Gun
2018
Salt
2010
Think Like a Man
2012
Nobody's Fool
2018
An Acceptable Loss
2019
The Nomads
2019
Sonic the Hedgehog 2
2022
Sonic the Hedgehog
2020
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| Southside with You | 2016 | Executive Producer |