Tika Sumpter

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…

Filmography

• Sonic the Hedgehog 3 as Maddie
• Sonic the Hedgehog 2 as Maddie Wachowski
• Sonic the Hedgehog as Maddie Wachowski
• Stomp the Yard 2: Homecoming as Nikki
• Sparkle as Delores
• Ride Along as Angela
• A Madea Christmas as Lacey
• Get On Up as Yvonne Fair
• My Man Is a Loser as Clarissa
• Southside with You as Michelle Robinson

TV

• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Vegas
• Gossip Girl as Raina Thorpe
• Final Space as Quinn / Nightfall (voice)
• LIVE with Kelly and Mark as Self - Guest
• Tamron Hall as Self - Guest
• Tyler Perry's The Haves and the Have Nots as Candace Young
• Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self
• mixed-ish as Alicia Johnson
• Knuckles as Maddie Wachowski
• Sherri as Self - Guest