Acting
Bern Nadette Stanis
- Born
- Dec 22, 1953 · Age 72
- Place of birth
- Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
- Gender
- Female
- Movie credits
- 11
- TV credits
- 10
Also known as (3)
- BernNadette Stanis
- Bernadette Stanis
- Bernnadette 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…
