10/28/2026
Beloved Family Matters and Gimme a Break! Star Telma Hopkins Celebrates 78 Years! 🎂📺
Telma Hopkins has spent decades bringing warmth, humor, and personality to television, becoming especially memorable as Rachel Crawford in Family Matters and Addy Wilson in Gimme a Break!. Her career has moved through sitcoms, drama, science fiction, and music, with roles in Half & Half, Bosom Buddies, Trancers, and The Matrix Resurrections.
Long before many of those acting roles, Hopkins was also known as part of Tony Orlando and Dawn, adding a successful music career to an already remarkably versatile résumé. She has continued appearing on screen in projects like Dead to Me, Family Reunion, The Young and the Restless, and Clean Slate.
Some of her most memorable roles include:
Rachel Crawford (Family Matters)
Addy Wilson (Gimme a Break!)
Phyllis Thorne (Half & Half)
Isabelle Hammond (Bosom Buddies)
Herself / Singer and Performer (Tony Orlando and Dawn)
Marilyn Persons (Are We There Yet?)
Dolores Dixon (Getting By)
Grandma Rose Dooley (Lab Rats)
Ruth “Ruthie” Raines (Trancers / Trancers II / Trancers III)
Freya (The Matrix Resurrections)
Yolanda (Dead to Me)
Maybelle (Family Reunion)
Maybelle (The Loud House / The Casagrandes)
Denise Tolliver (The Young and the Restless)
Ella (Clean Slate)
Lillian Roanoke (The Love Guru)
Across music, classic sitcoms, contemporary television, and even science fiction, Telma Hopkins has built a career full of memorable characters and unmistakable charm.
Happy 78th Birthday, Telma Hopkins! 🎉🎶
