Born in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA — Dec 22 1953

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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Janet Reeves

Self

Carolyn Thompson

Thelma Evans

Thelma Evans


Nee Nee Duncan

Peaches (voice)

Nee Nee Duncan

Self

Dr. Heather

Aunt Tee Dee

Nina's Mother

Aunt Thelma


Jackson's lawyer

Rose Lane


Grace