Tika Sumpter Bio, Age, Husband, Daughter, Net Worth, Movies, TV Shows

What is Sumpter famous for? Biography

Tika Sumpter is a producer and actor from America.Sumpter hosted Best Friend’s Date at the start of her career. She had appearances in the daily soap serial One Life to Live from 2005 until 2010.She debuted in a movie in 2010 with Stomp the Yard: Homecoming. She then had supporting parts in Sparkle, A Madea Christmas, and What’s Your Number?

How old is Sumpter? – Age

Born Euphemia LatiQue Sumpter, the actress is 44 years old as of 20 June 2024. She was born in 1980 in Hollis, New York, United States.

Sumpter Family – Education

She cheered for her high school team.After completing her education at Middle Island, New York’s Longwood Senior High School, she pursued a communications major at Marymount Manhattan College.

Is Sumpter still married? Husband

Sumpter revealed her engagement to Nicholas James, her co-star on The Haves and the Have Nots, in January 2017. In 2022, the pair tied the knot.

How many kids does Sumpter have? – Daughter

At the age of 36, she had a daughter Ella-Loren, who was born on October 8, 2016.

One Life to Live

She appeared as Layla Williamson on the American daytime soap opera One Life to Live. In 2005, Layla moved to Llanview from Los Angeles, California. She was employed as a waiter at Antonio Vega’s Restaurant Capricorn, where she befriended him during the Killing Club murderer’s reign. Antonio was battling R.J. Gannon for custody of his daughter Jamie, as Gannon had gained custody through Antonio’s girlfriend Jessica Buchanan. Layla persuaded RJ to give up on the charade and they kept showing up together.

American actress and producer Tika Sumpter
American actress and producer Tika Sumpter

Later, Layla got a job at Buchanan Enterprises and started dating Vincent Jones, the boxing manager of Cristian Vega, the boyfriend of Layla’s sister Evangeline Williamson. After Tate Harmon, a former baseball star, was hired to model the male underwear collection, they co-founded the fashion brand Exposed. When Evangeline suffered a racial gas attack and fell into a coma, Layla was distraught. Vincent and her reconciled, although Tate was the one responsible for the racial insults. Before Tate could do any fatal damage to the group, Talia Sahid, a police officer, came to their aid.

Following Layla’s move in, Talia and Sarah Roberts had a puppy named Aziza.Oliver Fish and she resumed dating, but she started to suspect he was gay after noticing certain things about him.When she later got to know Nick, he told her that he was seeing Kyle Lewis, a police officer who was seeing a lady. After Fish came clean about being gay after having an affair with Stacy Morasco, Layla broke up with him and promised never to date again. After several days and weeks had passed since Cristian and Layla’s kiss, Layla acknowledges that she felt betrayed by Evangeline even though she wanted it just as much as he did. Layla makes the decision to move out in order to prevent any conflict between her and Cristian, but when Cris advises him to move out instead, Layla reconsiders. Layla visits Cris at his mother’s house after discussing it with Kyle and Fish, and they decide to pursue a relationship.

Gossip Girl

She potrayed Raina Thorpe in the fourth season of the Gossip Girl television adaption. Raina meets Chuck Bass at the Thorpe Enterprises office in The Kids Are Not Alright while looking for her father, Russell Thorpe. Russell says that he didn’t know Bass Industries was being sold, and that Raina is his daughter. Raina makes Chuck an offer to sleep, but they disagree over mixing work and play. Chuck makes the decision to make Raina fall in love with him in order to persuade Russell to stop purchasing Bass Industries. Blair Waldorf assists him, but ultimately they part ways.

Raina grows inquisitive about her mother’s passing in The Kids Stay in the Picture and makes a promise to find her. After hiring a private investigator, she locates Avery Thorpe in New Jersey—who is not her mother. Chuck tells Nate what Russell told him, and together they discover that Avery was in the building when it caught fire.

Tika Sumpter together with her husband Nicholas James
Tika Sumpter together with her husband Nicholas James

Chuck is Nate’s first choice, but after finding out that Blair is engaged to Louis Grimaldi, he ends up picking Raina. Raina summons his uncle Jack Bass to return to the city as payback. In Shattered Bass, Jack joins forces with Nate and Chuck to defeat Russell, and Raina discovers that it was Russell—not Bart—who abandoned Avery to die. Chuck gives Russell the command to leave New York and never come back in return.

Raina severs all relations with her father in an effort to save Chuck. Blair is abducted by Russell, who then intends to burn her at Chuck’s new hotel. But in an attempt to save herself, she phones Raina, Chuck, and Nate; Raina even forgives him for killing her mother.

The Haves and the Have Nots

She portrays Candace Young, the antiheroine on the drama in Tyler Perry’s The Haves and the Have Nots. In the premiere episode, The Big Surprise, viewers are first introduced to Candace as an escort named Candy. She is first seen stepping out of judge Jim Cryer’s bed after engaging in a sexual experience.

Throughout the first season, Candace continues her affair with Jim by pretending to be a law student and going to school with Jim’s daughter Amanda. Pretending to be particularly intrigued by Jim’s cases helps her hide the affair and keeps the two of them hidden from prying eyes. Unaware of the two, Wyatt, Jim’s son, accidentally finds out about the affair. He doesn’t tell anybody about it directly, but he does subtly suggest that he thinks Candace prefers to date “older men”—his father, in this case.

After growing uncomfortable with Candace’s presence at the estate, Hanna, the newest maid for the Cryers, eventually tells her friend and fellow maid Celine Gonzales that although Candace is her daughter, the two have been estranged for a long time. Hanna is inconsolable and believes her daughter is not being honest.

Candace demands a big sum of money and a car as payment when she blackmails Jim, threatening to make headlines if he breaks up with her. Jim consents, gives in to Candace’s demands with the assistance of his friend David Harrington, and then feels secure in the knowledge that she has left his life. However, Veronica, David’s wife, believes he is having an affair with Candace and confronts her after finding evidence of David delivering Candace’s new car.

Tika Movies and TV Credits

Tika has appeared in various films including;

Movies

♦ 2024 – The Underdoggs
♦ 2024 – Sonic the Hedgehog 3
♦ 2022 – Sonic the Hedgehog 2
♦ 2019 – An Acceptable Loss
♦ 2019 – The Nomads
♦ 2018 – The Old Man & the Gun
♦ 2018 – Nobody’s Fool
♦ 2016 – Ride Along 2
♦ 2016 – Southside with You
♦ 2015 – You Never Left
♦ 2014 – Ride Along
♦ 2014 – My Man Is a Loser
♦ 2014 – Get On Up
♦ 2013 – A Madea Christmas
♦ 2012 – Think Like a Man
♦ 2012 – Sparkle
♦ 2011 – Whisper Me a Lullaby

TV Shows

♦ 2024 – Knuckles
♦ 2023 – Run the World
♦ 2019–21 – Mixed-ish
♦ 2018–21 – Final Space
♦ 2015 – Bessie
♦ 2013–21 – The Haves and the Have Nots
♦ 2013 – Being Mary Jane
♦ 2011–12 – The Game
♦ 2011 – Gossip Girl
♦ 2006 – Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
♦ 2005–11 – One Life to Live
♦ 2004–05 – Best Friend’s Date