Bern Nadette Stanis
Acting Born Dec 22, 1953 Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA 21 credits
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.
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Full filmography
- The Love Boat (1977) as Janet Reeves
- The Cosby Show (1984) as Carolyn Thompson
- Sherri (2022) as Self - Guest
- Girlfriends (2000) as Self
- Good Times (1974) as Thelma Evans
- Carl Weber's The Family Business (2018) as Nee Nee Duncan
- The Wayans Bros. (1995) as Thelma Evans
- The Parent 'Hood (1995)
- Good Times (2024) as Peaches (voice)
- The Family Business: New Orleans (2025) as Nee Nee Duncan
- No Regrets (2016) as Nina's Mother
- N-Secure (2010) as Dr. Heather
- Live in Front of a Studio Audience: "All in the Family" and "Good Times" (2019) as Self
- Still 'Bout It (2004) as Aunt Tee Dee
- CHAAW: Chapter 1 (2023) as Aunt Thelma
- Hidden Blessings (2000) as Jackson's lawyer
- Dreams from the Edge (2021) as Rose Lane
- Once in a Valentine (2024)
- The Engagement: My Phamily BBQ 2 (2006)
- The Therapy Sessions
- A Christmas Blessing (2023) as Grace