Bern Nadette Stanis
Born: 1953-12-22 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Known For: 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 acting--BernNadette was that naturally. She introduced a new definitive image of the young black girl and woman.
Filmography
2025
- The Family Business: New Orleans as Nee Nee Duncan
2024
- Good Times as Peaches (voice)
- Once in a Valentine
2023
- CHAAW: Chapter 1 as Aunt Thelma
- A Christmas Blessing as Grace
2022
- Sherri as Self - Guest
2021
- Dreams from the Edge as Rose Lane
2018
- Carl Weber's The Family Business as Nee Nee Duncan
2016
- No Regrets as Nina's Mother
2010
- N-Secure as Dr. Heather
2004
- Still 'Bout It as Aunt Tee Dee
2000
- Girlfriends as Self
- Hidden Blessings as Jackson's lawyer
1995
- The Wayans Bros. as Thelma Evans
- The Parent 'Hood
1984
- The Cosby Show as Carolyn Thompson
1977
- The Love Boat as Janet Reeves
1974
- Good Times as Thelma Evans