The actress and author who brought the influential character of “Thelma Evans” to life on TV’s “Good Times” for six seasons in the 1970s says she has learned to embrace the identification. “I always ...

NEW ORLEANS — Bern Nadette Stanis is doing just fine. The actress, most known for her role of Thelma Evans in the hit 1970s TV series “Good Times,” has a booth at the 2023 Essence Festival of Culture.

Jackson and Stanis co-starred on the CBS sitcom, which ran from 1974 to 1979, during the final two seasons BernNadette Stanis forged an immediate and indelible bond with 11-year-old Janet Jackson when ...

In the classic 1970s sitcom "Good Times," BernNadette Stanis played Thelma, the feisty middle child of the Evans household. And in the 40 years since that series ended in 1979, Stanis has stayed busy, ...

Bern Nadette Stanis said it loud: She’s Black and most definitely proud. The second Thelma Evans graced the small screen with her perfectly sculpted afro puffs and funky 70s fashions as the only ...

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 ...

Most people remember her as Thelma, the daughter in the mid- to-late ’70s show Good Times who played off her onscreen brother J.J. (actor Jimmie Walker ) and his dy-no-mite phrases. But when ...

JACKSON, MI – Bern Nadette Stanis, better known as Thelma Evans from "Good Times," will be the keynote speaker at Jackson Community College's annual Martin Luther King Jr. celebration Jan. 19. Stanis, ...

BernNadette Stanis forged an immediate and indelible bond with 11-year-old Janet Jackson when the future pop superstar made her TV debut in 1977 as Penny on Good Times. "It was wonderful when she came ...