Known For
Acting
Born
Dec 22, 1953
Place of Birth
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Credits
21 titles
Bern Nadette 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.
Known For
Filmography
The Family Business: New Orleans
Nee Nee Duncan
Once in a Valentine
Good Times
Peaches (voice)
A Christmas Blessing
Grace
CHAAW: Chapter 1
Aunt Thelma
Sherri
Self - Guest
Dreams from the Edge
Rose Lane
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: "All in the Family" and "Good Times"
Self
Carl Weber's The Family Business
Nee Nee Duncan
No Regrets
Nina's Mother
N-Secure
Dr. Heather
The Engagement: My Phamily BBQ 2
Still 'Bout It
Aunt Tee Dee
Girlfriends
Self
Hidden Blessings
Jackson's lawyer
The Parent 'Hood
The Wayans Bros.
Thelma Evans
The Cosby Show
Carolyn Thompson
The Love Boat
Janet Reeves
Good Times
Thelma Evans
The Therapy Sessions