Person
Bern Nadette Stanis
Acting · Born 1953-12-22 · Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Biography
BernNadette Stanis is best known as Thelma from Good Times (1974), but there's much more to her than that. In the 1970s she was the personification of black beauty. As sophisticated and graceful as she was, she still became TV's first black sex symbol or "It" girl. Thelma/BernNadette and the Evans family also proved many stereotypes wrong about the ghetto and the young black girl, such as that all black girls and black families in the ghetto had no hopes, dreams, or class. Thelma showed that a "ghetto girl" had hopes and dreams, intelligence, respect, dignity and grace, and it wasn't just acting--BernNadette was that naturally. She introduced a new definitive image of the young black girl and woman.
Known for
The Love Boat
Janet Reeves
Sherri
Self - Guest
The Cosby Show
Carolyn Thompson
Girlfriends
Self
The Wayans Bros.
Thelma Evans
Good Times
Thelma Evans
The Parent 'Hood
1995
Carl Weber's The Family Business
Nee Nee Duncan
Good Times
Peaches (voice)
The Family Business: New Orleans
Nee Nee Duncan
Filmography
- 2025The Family Business: New OrleansNee Nee Duncan
- 2024Once in a Valentine
- 2024Good TimesPeaches (voice)
- 2023A Christmas BlessingGrace
- 2023CHAAW: Chapter 1Aunt Thelma
- 2022SherriSelf - Guest
- 2021Dreams from the EdgeRose Lane
- 2019Live in Front of a Studio Audience: "All in the Family" and "Good Times"Self
- 2018Carl Weber's The Family BusinessNee Nee Duncan
- 2016No RegretsNina's Mother
- 2010N-SecureDr. Heather
- 2006The Engagement: My Phamily BBQ 2
- 2004Still 'Bout ItAunt Tee Dee
- 2000GirlfriendsSelf
- 2000Hidden BlessingsJackson's lawyer
- 1995The Parent 'Hood
- 1995The Wayans Bros.Thelma Evans
- 1984The Cosby ShowCarolyn Thompson
- 1977The Love BoatJanet Reeves
- 1974Good TimesThelma Evans
- —The Therapy Sessions
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