Tika Sumpter

About

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...

Known for

Law & Order: Special Victims UnitSeries • 1999Gossip GirlSeries • 2007Sonic the Hedgehog 3Movie • 2024Sonic the HedgehogMovie • 2020Sonic the Hedgehog 2Movie • 2022WatsonSeries • 2025Tyler Perry's The Haves and the Have NotsSeries • 2013SaltMovie • 2010Final SpaceSeries • 2018KnucklesSeries • 2024mixed-ishSeries • 2019Survival of the ThickestSeries • 2023Ride Along 2Movie • 2016Sonic the Hedgehog 4Movie • 2027What's Your Number?Movie • 2011Ride AlongMovie • 2014Nobody's FoolMovie • 2018The Old Man & the GunMovie • 2018Think Like a ManMovie • 2012The UnderdoggsMovie • 2024Get On UpMovie • 2014Stomp the Yard 2: HomecomingMovie • 2010Southside with YouMovie • 2016An Acceptable LossMovie • 2019