Bern Nadette Stanis
Acting
Born: 1953-12-22 in 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
The Parent 'Hood
Good Times
Thelma Evans
Carl Weber's The Family Business
Nee Nee Duncan
Good Times
Peaches (voice)
The Family Business: New Orleans
Nee Nee Duncan
N-Secure
Dr. Heather
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: "All in the Family" and "Good Times"
Self
No Regrets
Nina's Mother
CHAAW: Chapter 1
Aunt Thelma
A Christmas Blessing
Grace
Once in a Valentine
Still 'Bout It
Aunt Tee Dee
Dreams from the Edge
Rose Lane
Hidden Blessings
Jackson's lawyer
