Bern Nadette Stanis
Born in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA — Dec 22 1953
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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, di…
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Bern Nadette Stanis's Credits
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The Love Boat
Janet Reeves
Girlfriends
Self
The Cosby Show
Carolyn Thompson
Good Times
Thelma Evans
The Wayans Bros.
Thelma Evans
The Parent 'Hood
Carl Weber's The Family Business
Nee Nee Duncan
Good Times
Peaches (voice)
The Family Business: New Orleans
Nee Nee Duncan
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: "All in the Family" and "Good Times"
Self
N-Secure
Dr. Heather
Still 'Bout It
Aunt Tee Dee
No Regrets
Nina's Mother
CHAAW: Chapter 1
Aunt Thelma
Once in a Valentine
Hidden Blessings
Jackson's lawyer
The Therapy Sessions
Dreams from the Edge
Rose Lane
The Engagement: My Phamily BBQ 2
A Christmas Blessing
Grace