Telma Hopkins was born on October 28, 1948 in Louisville, Kentucky, USA as Telma Louise Hopkins. She is an actress, known for Family Matters (1989), The Love Guru (2008) and Half & Half (2002). She was previously married to Donald B. Alen. Telma Louise Hopkins is an American actress and singer. Hopkins rose to prominence as a member of the 1970s pop music group Tony Orlando and Dawn, which had several number-one songs. She also performed on the CBS variety show Tony Orlando and Dawn from 1974 until 1976 along with Tony Orlando and Joyce Vincent Wilson.

Filmography

• 2026Higher Love
• Clean Slate — Ella
• 2024Brewster’s Millions: Christmas — Aunty Brewster
• Not Dead Yet — Suzie
• 2021Blending Christmas — Nicole
• Rugrats — Celeste (voice)
• 2021The Matrix Resurrections — Freya
• 2020Misfits — Producer
• 2019A Family Reunion Christmas — Maybelle
• 2019Christmas Hotel — Alice
• Dead to Me — Yolanda
• Family Reunion — Maybelle
• 2018Running Out of Time — Dolly
• K.C. Undercover — Miss Holly
• 2015Welcome to the Family — Deborah
• Partners — Ruth Jackson
• Getting On — Beverly Raymes
• Lab Rats — Rose Dooley
• 2 Broke Girls — Pilar
• Are We There Yet? — Marilyn Persons
• 2008The Love Guru — Lillian Roanoke
• Psych — Phylis Gaffney
• Half & Half — Phyllis Thorne
• 2002Spider-Man: The Ultimate Villain Showdown — Mrs. Farrell (voice)
• Static Shock — Mrs. Barnett (voice)
• 1999The Wood — Slim's Mother
• Any Day Now
• For Your Love
• The Hughleys — Paulette Williams
• Suddenly Susan — Denise
• Women of the House — Officer Rhoda
• ER — Carlene
• Spider-Man — Mrs. Farrell (voice)
• Getting By — Dolores Dixon
• The Nanny — Lila Baker
• 1992Trancers III — Commander Raines
• 1991Trancers II — Commander Raynes
• 1990How to Murder a Millionaire — Teresa
• 1990Vital Signs — Dr. Kennan
• Family Matters — Rachel Crawford
• 1988Pulse Pounders — Raines (Trancers sequence)
• 1988Rock 'N Roll Mom — Edda
• 1988Trancers: City of Lost Angels — Raynes
• 1985The NBC All Star Hour: Let's All Be There
• 1984Trancers — Ruth Raines
• 1982The Kid with the Broken Halo — Gail Desautel
• The New Odd Couple — Frances
• Gimme a Break! — Addy Wilson
• Bosom Buddies — Isabelle Hammond
• A New Kind of Family
• Roots: The Next Generations — Daisy
• The Love Boat — Velma Phillips, Cleo, Tracy
• The Young and the Restless — Denise Tolliver

Appearances as themselves (6)

• 2003ABC's 50th Anniversary Celebration — Self
• 1990Night of 100 Stars III — Self
• 1987Golden Anniversary of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs — Self
• Fridays — Self
• Tony Orlando and Dawn — Self
• The Mike Douglas Show — Self