Tika Sumpter

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.