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Bern Nadette Stanis
ActorBorn December 22, 1953 (71 years)
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.
Filmography
| 2025 | The Family Business: New Orleans (TV Series) · as Nee Nee Duncan |
| 2024 | |
| 2024 | Good Times (2024) (TV Series) · as Peaches (voice) |
| 2024 | CHAAW: Chapter 3 - Christmas Time Is Here · as Aunt Thelma |
| 2023 | A Christmas Blessing · as Grace |
| 2023 | CHAAW: Chapter 1 · as Aunt Thelma |
| 2019 | The Big Shot · as Pamela Randolph |
| 2018 | Carl Weber's The Family Business (TV Series) · as Nee Nee Duncan |
| 2016 | No Regrets · as Nina's Mother |
| 2014 | Black Jesus (TV Series) · as Cast |
| 2010 | N-Secure · as Dr. Heather |
| 2006 | |
| 2004 | Still 'Bout It · as Aunt Tee Dee |
| 2004 | |
| 2000 | Girlfriends (TV Series) |
| 2000 | Hidden Blessings · as Jackson's Lawyer |
| 1997 | Good News (TV Series) · as Cast |
| 1995 | The Parent 'Hood (TV Series) |
| 1995 | The Wayans Bros. (TV Series) · as Thelma Evans |
| 1994 | Extra (TV Series) · as Hwerself - Good Times |
| 1987 | Bustin' Loose (TV Series) · as Ms. Fisher |
| 1985 | What's Happening Now! (TV Series) · as Marcie |
| 1984 | The Cosby Show (TV Series) · as Carolyn Thompson |
| 1977 | The Love Boat (TV Series) · as Janet Reeves |
| 1974 | Good Times (TV Series) · as Thelma Evans |