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.

Filmography

• 2027Sonic the Hedgehog 4 — Maddie Wachowski
• 2026ChikaBOOM!!
• Watson — Dr. Laila Bynum
• Knuckles — Maddie Wachowski
• 2024Sonic the Hedgehog 3 — Maddie
• 2024The Underdoggs — Cherise
• Survival of the Thickest — Simone
• 2022Sonic the Hedgehog 2 — Maddie Wachowski
• 2020Sonic the Hedgehog — Maddie Wachowski
• 2019An Acceptable Loss — Elizabeth "Libby" Lamm
• 2019The Nomads — Cassey McNamara
• mixed-ish — Alicia Johnson
• Final Space — Quinn / Nightfall (voice)
• 2018Nobody's Fool — Danica
• 2018The Old Man & the Gun — Maureen
• 2016Ride Along 2 — Angela Payton
• 2016Southside with You — Michelle Robinson, Executive Producer
• 2015Bessie — Lucille
• 2014Get On Up — Yvonne Fair
• 2014My Man Is a Loser — Clarissa
• 2014Ride Along — Angela
• 2013A Madea Christmas — Lacey
• Tyler Perry's The Haves and the Have Nots — Candace Young
• 2012Sparkle — Delores
• 2012Think Like a Man — Dominic's Girlfriend
• 2011What's Your Number? — Jamie
• 2010Salt — Front Deskwoman
• 2010Stomp the Yard 2: Homecoming — Nikki
• Gossip Girl — Raina Thorpe
• Best Friend's Date
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit — Vegas
• Night Off — Director
• Sisters in Italy — Billie, Screenplay, Producer

Appearances as themselves (7)

• Sherri — Self - Guest
• The Tamron Hall Show — Self - Guest
• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert — Self - Guest
• Late Night with Seth Meyers — Self
• Steve Harvey — Self
• Jimmy Kimmel Live! — Self - Guest
• LIVE with Kelly and Mark — Self - Guest