Bern Nadette Stanis
ActingAlso Known As
BernNadette Stanis, Bernadette Stanis, Bernnadette Stanis
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.
Movies
(11 total)
N-Secure
as Dr. Heather
No Regrets
as Nina's Mother
Still 'Bout It
as Aunt Tee Dee
A Christmas Blessing
as Grace
CHAAW: Chapter 1
as Aunt Thelma
Hidden Blessings
as Jackson's lawyer
Dreams from the Edge
as Rose Lane
TV Shows
(10 total)
The Cosby Show
as Carolyn Thompson
The Love Boat
as Janet Reeves
Good Times
as Thelma Evans
The Wayans Bros.
as Thelma Evans
Girlfriends
as Self
Carl Weber's The Family Business
as Nee Nee Duncan
Good Times
as Peaches (voice)
Sherri
as Self - Guest
The Family Business: New Orleans
as Nee Nee Duncan