From Good Times To Bad: Whatever Happened To The Cast Of Good Times?

A Famous Little Girl

You might recall a young child actress with a popular last name to have been on Good Times as well. Janet Jackson appeared on the final two seasons of Good Times as Millicent “Penny” Gordon Woods, a girl who was adopted by Willona after she was abused and abandoned by her own mother.

Before being cast on Good Times, Jackson was on The Jacksons, a variety show that starred her and her siblings. After Good Times, she would go on to have roles on A New Kind Of Family and Diff’rent Strokes. But after acting in her youth, Jackson went on to forge an incredibly successful music career in her own right.