2010Nominee
Best Performance
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Bern Nadette Stanis
Actor
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
December 22, 1953
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.
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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
2019Nominee
Best Performance
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: "All in the Family" and "Good Times"
2016Nominee
Best Performance
No Regrets
Career Highlights
2024Highlight
Best Performance
Once in a Valentine
2004Highlight
Best Performance
Still 'Bout It
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No Regrets
Once in a Valentine