Tika Sumpter

Tika Sumpter is an American model, actress, television host, and producer. She was a cheerleader at her secondary school. She got her graduate degree in New York Click to look into! >> Read More... from Longwood Senior High School in Middle Island and learned at Marymount Manhattan College where she specialized in communications. Sumpter started her modeling profession and showed up in advertisements for Curve fragrances by Liz Claiborne and Hewlett-Packard.

She likewise filled in as a server before acting. In 2004, Tikaworked as the co-anchor for the N channel arrangement Best Friend's Date. The next year, she handled the job of Layla Williamson in the soap opera titled One Life to Live on ABC. For her depiction of Layla, Sumpter earned the nomination for an NAACP Image Award as the Best Actress in a Daytime Drama Series in 2008. In 2010, she debuted in cinema with film Stomp the Yard: Homecoming as the female lead and around the same time showed up in Salt.

From January to May 2011, Sumpter acted as Raina Thorpe in The CW high schooler dramatization arrangement, Gossip Girl. She played artist Jason Derülo's sweetheart in the video for his melody "It Girl." In 2011, Tikashowed up as main character companion in the lighthearted comedy movie What's Your Number?. From 2011 to 2012, she likewise had a repeating job as Jenna Rice in the BET comic drama show named The Game.

On 13 September of 2011, it reported that Sumpter would play one of the sisters named Deloris, in the musical motion picture Sparkle nearby Carmen Ejogo, Jordin Sparks, Derek Luke, and Whitney Houston. The movie is a remake of the film of a similar name roused by the narrative of The Supremes of 1976. R&B artist Aaliyah initially wanted to star as Sparkle; anyway following her demise in a 2001 plane accident, generation on the film halted.

Creation would have started in 2002. The film discharged in the United States on17 August of 2012. Later, Sumpter featured in the comic drama movie My Man Is a Loser composed and coordinated by entertainer Mike Young. The film shot in2012 and discharged by Lionsgate on 25 July of 2014. In 2013, she showed up in the Christmas parody dramatization motion picture A Madea Christmas by Tyler Perry.

In the same year, Sumpter started featuring as a villainess named Candace Young in the Oprah Winfrey Channel sudsy sitcom The Haves and the Have Nots, additionally made by Tyler Perry. The show got negative audits from commentators, as other of Perry's works, however, was the huge hit in appraisals for Oprah Winfrey Network, to date. Sumpter acted as the lead in the activity comic drama motion picture Ride Along Click to look into! >> Read More... in 2014 coordinated by Tim Story, alongside Ice Cube O’shea Jackson aka Ice Cube is known for his actin >> Read More... and Kevin Hart.

She came back to the job in its spin-off Ride Along 2, discharged on 15 January 2016. She worked as Yvonne Fair in the anecdotal dramatization film Get On Up Click to look into! >> Read More... , about James Brown. In the same year, she co-featured with Khandi Alexander, Queen Latifah Dana Elaine Owens, known by her stage Queen Latifa >> Read More... , and Mo'Nique in the biographical movie Bessie about the notable blues artist Bessie Smith on HBO. Sumpter worked as youthful Michelle Obama in the lighthearted comedy motion picture Southside with You, a biopic about the early sentiment among Michelle and Barack Obama.

The movie entered in 2016 at the Sundance Film Festival and got positive audits from critics. Sumpter additionally co-created the film. She got positive audits for her execution. Variety put her in its rundown of one of the "Greatest Breakthrough Performances" at Sundance. She is a privileged individual from Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority. She enlisted into the association at the 67th yearly Boule on 10 July of 2016 in Atlanta, Georgia.

In March of 2017, Sumpter cast close by Danny Glover, Robert Redford, Sissy Spacek, and Casey Affleck in The Old Man and the Gun coordinating by David Lowery. In June of 2017, she started shooting of The Pages, a political spine chiller composed and directed by Joe Chappelle featuring nearby Jamie Lee Curtis. The next year, she worked for Paramount Players with Tiffany Haddish in the parody movie Nobody's Fool.