TV's poor little rich girls

Whitley Gilbert (Jasmine Guy), “A Different World”

No one stole a scene—and eventually an entire show—better than Whitley Gilbert. That drawl may have sounded like a stamp of good southern upbringing, but Whitley was not used to going without. Anything.

Even if it took all of her charms and scheming, she’d get what (or who—see Dwayne Wayne for a shining example) she wanted. It may have been a different world, but Whitley was still its queen.