Thelma Frye Gregory
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| Thelma Frye Gregory | |
|---|---|
| First appearance | Pilot |
| Last appearance | Deliverance, Pts. 1 & 2 |
| Portrayed by | Anna Maria Horsford |
| Information | |
| Species | Female |
| Gender | Female |
| Age | 36-41 |
| Date of birth | 1950/1951 |
| Occupation | Relator |
| Family | Deacon Ernest Frye (father) Mrs. Gregory (mother-in-law) Reverend Rueben Gregory (husband) |
| Spouse(s) | Reverend Rueben Gregory (1990-present) |
Thelma Frye Gregory was a fictional character on the hit series, Amen, she was portrayed by Anna Maria Horsford.
[edit] Character Background
Thelma Frye is the daughter of Deacon Ernest Frye, a dishonest deacon at the First Community Church of Philadelphia, and Thelma was born around the early 1950s, her mother died when Thelma was about the age of six. so, Ernest had to take care Thelma as she has gotten older and started to discover her mother's passing away. In the first couple of episodes of Amen, Thelma was known for being a spinster, but had a long-lasting crush on the man of her dreams, Reverend Rueben Gregory, who she thought, was handsome, polite and mostly very attractive to women. Thelma and Rueben kept on with the relationship until 1989 when Rueben proposed to Thelma and asked if she wanted to marry him, Thelma accepts the engagement and in the middle episodes of the third season, Thelma becomes Rueben's Fiancé.
Thelma was also known for her horrible cooking, which no one wanted to touch or eat and mostly pretend if they did like it, but was best friends to Rolly Forbes, Cassietta Hetebrink and Amelia Hetebrink, two girlhood siblings, and Thelma usually drafted herself into the military after discovering Rueben had passed out on the day of the marriage, and Thelma leaves him, and Ernest and Rueben tried to have her not go to the military, but Thelma had already changed her mind and stayed there for a full year.
