Tika Sumpter

Birth Name:

Euphemia L. Sumpter

Birth Place:

Queens, New York, United States

Profession

Actress, Producer, Soundtrack

Paul Wesley, Mark-Paul Gosselaar, and More Recall Their Guest Roles on Law & Order: SVU

Watch over a dozen SVU alums pay tribute to the historic drama

Fri, Sep 20, 2019

Paul Wesley, Mark-Paul Gosselaar, and More Recall Their Guest Roles on Law & Order: SVU

Watch the First Trailers for All of ABC's New Shows

Which of these will be your next obsession?

Tue, May 14, 2019

Watch the First Trailers for All of ABC's New Shows

John Schneider on the Explosive Return of OWN's The Haves and the Have Nots

Should he call Olivia Pope? Jim Cryer, the cock-o-the-walk judge played by John Schneider on OWN's The Haves and the Have Nots, wants to be the next Georgia governor but that dream could be dashed if he doesn't get his clan under control. When Tyler Perry's steamy, rowdy sudser returns Tuesday (9/8c), Jim's drug-addict son, Wyatt (Aaron O'Connell), has left two people near death after a hit-and-run driving spree. That's not Dad's only headache: His bipolar daughter Amanda (Jaklyn Betham) has teamed with his favorite hooker, Candace (Tika Sumpter), in a revenge lawsuit against him. And his bitter, high-strung wife, Katheryn (Renee Lawson), who hate his guts and knows his dirt, could blow at any moment. No worries! Schneider tells TV Guide Magazine why his badass character won't be losing his cool.

Tue, Jan 7, 2014

John Schneider on the Explosive Return of OWN's The Haves and the Have Nots

Tika Sumpter Dishes The Haves and the Have Nots

Is she truly evil, totally bonkers or just misunderstood? Tika Sumpter stirs it up plenty on the Tyler Perry sudser The Haves and the Have Nots (Tuesdays at 9/8c on OWN) as Candace Young, the gold-digging hooker — excuse us, gentleman's escort — who is bedding and blackmailing Judge Jim Cryer (John Schneider). The former One Life to Live and Gossip Girl star gave TV Guide Magazine the lowdown on her down-low character.

Tue, Jul 2, 2013

Tika Sumpter Dishes The Haves and the Have Nots

The Weekend Playlist: Maids, Discovery Gets Naked, ABC's Whodunnit?

It's so hard finding good shows about help these days.PBS' hit Brit import Downton Abbey, which humanizes the servants and nobility with equal sensitivity and wit, is an exception. In the second cable series within a month depicting the class divide between the unhappy rich and the equally conflicted domestics who tidy their fabulous homes if not their messy lives, both extremes of the economic scale are patronized with cartoonish levels of camp and melodrama.If you liked Marc Cherry's Desperate Housewives, then you're pretty much already seen Lifetime's Devious Maids — what's next, Dangerous Masseuses? The characters and situations may be different, but creator/executive producer Cherry's signature tone of arch cattiness leavened with sentimental schmaltz is unmistakable...

Fri, Jun 21, 2013