Bern Nadette Stanis
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.
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Movies (11)
Once in a Valentine
2024
A Christmas Blessing
2023 · Grace
CHAAW: Chapter 1
2023 · Aunt Thelma
Dreams from the Edge
2021 · Rose Lane
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: "All in the Family" and "Good Times"
2019 · Self
No Regrets
2016 · Nina's Mother
N-Secure
2010 · Dr. Heather
The Engagement: My Phamily BBQ 2
2006
Still 'Bout It
2004 · Aunt Tee Dee
Hidden Blessings
2000 · Jackson's lawyer
The Therapy Sessions
TV shows (10)
The Family Business: New Orleans
2025 · Nee Nee Duncan
Good Times
2024 · Peaches (voice)
Sherri
2022 · Self - Guest
Carl Weber's The Family Business
2018 · Nee Nee Duncan
Girlfriends
2000 · Self
The Parent 'Hood
1995
The Wayans Bros.
1995 · Thelma Evans
The Cosby Show
1984 · Carolyn Thompson
The Love Boat
1977 · Janet Reeves
Good Times
1974 · Thelma Evans