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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
December 22, 1953
Place of Birth
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Also Known As
- BernNadette Stanis
- Bernadette Stanis
- Bernnadette Stanis
Bern Nadette Stanis
0.5 Popularity
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.
Known For
10.0
Nee Nee Duncan
The Family Business: New Orleans
2025
0.0
Once in a Valentine
2024
6.1
Peaches (voice)
Good Times
2024
2.0
Grace
A Christmas Blessing
2023
0.0
Aunt Thelma
CHAAW: Chapter 1
2023
4.2
Self - Guest
Sherri
2022
0.0
Rose Lane
Dreams from the Edge
2021
6.1
Self
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: "All in the Family" and "Good Times"
2019
8.3
Nee Nee Duncan
Carl Weber's The Family Business
2018
7.1
Nina's Mother
No Regrets
2016
Credits
The Family Business: New Orleans
as Nee Nee Duncan
2025
10.0
Once in a Valentine
2024
0.0
Good Times
as Peaches (voice)
2024
6.1
A Christmas Blessing
as Grace
2023
2.0
CHAAW: Chapter 1
as Aunt Thelma
2023
0.0
Sherri
as Self - Guest
2022
4.2
Dreams from the Edge
as Rose Lane
2021
0.0
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: "All in the Family" and "Good Times"
as Self
2019
6.1
Carl Weber's The Family Business
as Nee Nee Duncan
2018
8.3
No Regrets
as Nina's Mother
2016
7.1
N-Secure
as Dr. Heather
2010
5.7
The Engagement: My Phamily BBQ 2
2006
6.0
Girlfriends
2000
7.2
Hidden Blessings
as Jackson's lawyer
2000
0.0
The Parent 'Hood
1995
7.3
The Wayans Bros.
as Thelma Evans
1995
7.1
The Cosby Show
as Carolyn Thompson
1984
7.0
The Love Boat
as Janet Reeves
1977
6.3
Good Times
as Thelma Evans
1974
8.0
🎬
The Therapy Sessions
N/A
0.0