Biography
Tika Sumpter is an American actress and producer. She began her career as the host of the series Best Friend's Date and appeared in the daytime soap opera One Life to Live from 2005 to 2010 as Layla Williamson. She graduated from Marymount Manhattan College.
Sumpter made her film debut in Stomp the Yard: Homecoming (2010). She has since appeared in supporting roles in films including What's Your Number? (2011), Sparkle (2012), Ride Along (2014) and its 2016 sequel, Get On Up (2014), The Old Man & the Gun (2018) and Nobody's Fool (2018). On television she starred as Candace Young in The Haves and the Have Nots (2013–2021) and as Alicia Johnson in Mixed-ish (2019–2021). She also produced and starred as Michelle Obama in Southside with You (2016).
Sumpter is known for playing Maddie Wachowski in the Sonic the Hedgehog films (2020, 2022 and 2024) and the spin-off series Knuckles.
