Dewayne Rodgers

EXCLUSIVE: Tika Sumpter has signed with Odenkirk Provissiero Entertainment. The transfer reunites Sumpter along with her former agent, DC Wade.

Most just lately, Sumpter made her directorial debut along with her quick movie, Night Off, written by Kiana Butler Jabangwe which premiered on the 2023 Sundance Film Festival for Hartbeat’s Women Write Now fellowship.

Up subsequent, she will likely be seen in MGM’s sports activities comedy The Underdoggs from director Charles Stone III. The function tells the story of Jaycen Jenning, “2J’s” (Snoop Dogg), a former NFL famous person who, after a run-in with the legislation, agrees to teach a youth soccer group in lieu of jail within the hopes of relaunching his fledgling profession.

Additionally, Sumpter portrayed Maddie Wachowski in Sonic the Hedgehog 2, a job she originated within the authentic movie launched in 2020. Prior to that, she was praised for bringing to life a younger Michelle Obama in Miramax’s function movie Southside With You, which Sumpter co-produced with John Legend.

Her credit additionally embody David Lowery’s The Old Man And The Gun and Nobody’s Fool in 2018, Ride Along 2 in 2016 and 2012’s Think Like A Man, to call a couple of.

In addition to Odenkirk Provissiero Entertainment, Sumpter will proceed to be repped by UTA and Hansen Jacobson Teller.