Bern Nadette Stanis
Acting
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Acting Credits
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 "...
Known For
Filmography
The Family Business: New Orleans
2025
as Nee Nee Duncan
Once in a Valentine
2024
Good Times
2024
as Peaches (voice)
CHAAW: Chapter 1
2023
as Aunt Thelma
A Christmas Blessing
2023
as Grace
The Sherri Shepherd Show
2022
as Self - Guest
Dreams from the Edge
2021
as Rose Lane
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: "All in the Family" and "Good Times"
2019
as Self
Carl Weber's The Family Business
2018
as Nee Nee Duncan
No Regrets
2016
as Nina's Mother
N-Secure
2010
as Dr. Heather
The Engagement: My Phamily BBQ 2
2006
Still 'Bout It
2004
as Aunt Tee Dee
Hidden Blessings
2000
as Jackson's lawyer
Girlfriends
2000
as Self
The Wayans Bros.
1995
as Thelma Evans
The Parent 'Hood
1995
The Cosby Show
1984
as Carolyn Thompson
The Love Boat
1977
as Janet Reeves
Good Times
1974
as Thelma Evans