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.

Bern Nadette Stanis

Acting Born December 22, 1953 Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

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

Girlfriends

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Sherri

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The Love Boat

Janet Reeves

The Cosby Show

Carolyn Thompson

The Wayans Bros.

Thelma Evans

Good Times

Thelma Evans

Carl Weber's The Family Business

Nee Nee Duncan

The Parent 'Hood

Good Times

Peaches (voice)

The Family Business: New Orleans

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Dr. Heather

Live in Front of a Studio Audience: "All in the Family" and "Good Times"

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