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BernNadette Stanis
Bernadette Stanis
Bernnadette Stanis
Bern Nadette Stanis
Acting
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 acti…
Known For
Filmography
Movies
Once in a Valentine
CHAAW: Chapter 1
as Aunt Thelma
A Christmas Blessing
as Grace
Dreams from the Edge
as Rose Lane
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: "All in the Family" and "Good Times"
as Self
No Regrets
as Nina's Mother
N-Secure
as Dr. Heather
The Engagement: My Phamily BBQ 2
Still 'Bout It
as Aunt Tee Dee
Hidden Blessings
as Jackson's lawyer
TV Shows
The Family Business: New Orleans
as Nee Nee Duncan · 8 ep.
Good Times
as Peaches (voice) · 2 ep.
Sherri
as Self - Guest · 1 ep.
Carl Weber's The Family Business
as Nee Nee Duncan · 12 ep.
Girlfriends
as Self · 1 ep.
The Wayans Bros.
as Thelma Evans · 1 ep.
The Parent 'Hood
1 ep.
The Cosby Show
as Carolyn Thompson · 1 ep.
The Love Boat
as Janet Reeves · 1 ep.
Good Times
as Thelma Evans · 133 ep.