
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
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.

as Carolyn Thompson

as Janet Reeves
1977

as Self - Guest
2022

as Carolyn Thompson
1984

as Self
2000

as Thelma Evans
1974

as Thelma Evans
1995

as Nee Nee Duncan
2018

1995

as Peaches (voice)
2024

as Nee Nee Duncan
2025

as Nina's Mother
2016

as Dr. Heather
2010
as Aunt Thelma
2023

2024

as Grace
2023

as Aunt Thelma
2023

as Rose Lane
2021

as Self
2019

as Nina's Mother
2016

as Dr. Heather
2010

2006

as Aunt Tee Dee
2004

as Jackson's lawyer
2000
as Carolyn Thompson
1 ep.

as Janet Reeves
1 episodes

as Self - Guest
1 episodes

as Carolyn Thompson
1 episodes

as Self
1 episodes

as Thelma Evans
133 episodes

as Thelma Evans
1 episodes

as Nee Nee Duncan
12 episodes

1 episodes

as Peaches (voice)
2 episodes

as Nee Nee Duncan
8 episodes