Euphemia LatiQue Sumpter, més coneguda com Tika Sumpter (Queens, Nova York, 20 de juny de 1980) és una actriu, productora, presentadora de televisió i model americana. Va començar la seva carrera com a presentadora de TeenNick, Best Friend's Dati (2004-2005), i el 2005 va aconseguir el paper de Layla Williamson en la novel·la diurna de l'ABC, Live One Life, on va tenir protagonisme regularment fins al 2010.

曾就读于玛丽蒙特曼哈顿学院，主修传播学。她的职业生涯始于模特，并出现在各种产品广告中，包括惠普和 Liz Claiborne 的 Curve 香水。

职业生涯：2004年，她担任N网络系列节目《最好的朋友的约会》的联合主持人。次年，她在《One Life to Live》中饰演蕾拉·威廉姆森（Layla Williamson）。

自 2011 年 1 月以来，桑普特出现在《绯闻女孩》中，饰演罗素·索普（迈克尔·博特曼饰）和查克·巴斯的爱人的女儿雷娜·索普。

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.

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Geboren in Queens, New York, studierte Sumpter am Marymount Manhattan College, wo sie den Schwerpunkt Kommunikation legte. Sie begann ihre Karriere als Model und erschien in verschiedenen Werbespots für Produkte wie Hewlett-Packard und Liz Claiborne's Curve Parfums. Im Jahr 2004 war sie Co-Moderatorin der N-Netzwerkserie Best Friend's Date. Im folgenden Jahr bekam sie die Rolle der Layla Williamson auf One Life to Live. Seit Januar 2011 ist Sumpter auf Gossip Girl als Raina Thorpe zu sehen, die Tochter von Russell Thorpe (Michael Boatman) und Chuck Bass' Liebesinteresse.

Vida privada: Nascida em Queens, Nova York, Sumpter estudou no Marymount Manhattan College, onde se formou em comunicações. Ela começou sua carreira como modelo e apareceu em vários comerciais de produtos, incluindo as fragrâncias Curve da Hewlett-Packard e Liz Claiborne.

Carreira: Em 2004, ela atuou como co-apresentadora da série da rede N Best Friend's Date. No ano seguinte, ela conseguiu o papel de Layla Williamson em One Life to Live.

Desde janeiro de 2011, Sumpter apareceu em Gossip Girl como Raina Thorpe, a filha de Russell Thorpe (Michael Boatman) e o interesse amoroso de Chuck Bass.