LeVar Burton
Acting
Born 1957-02-16
Landstuhl, Rhineland Palatinate, Germany
141 credits
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Levardis Robert Martyn Burton Jr. (born February 16, 1957) is an American actor, director, and television host. He played Geordi La Forge in Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994), Kunta Kinte in the ABC miniseries Roots (1977), and was the host of the PBS Kids educational television series Reading Rainbow for 23 years (1983–2006). Burton received 12 Daytime Emmy Awards and a Peabody Award as host and executive producer of Reading Rainbow.
His other roles include Cap Jackson in Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977), Donald Lang in Dummy (1979), Tommy Price in The Hunter (1980), which earned him an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture, and Martin Luther King Jr. in Ali (2001). Burton received the Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album at the 42nd Annual Grammy Awards for his narration of the book The Autobiography of Martin Luther King Jr. In 1990, he was honored for his accomplishments in television with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
From 2017 until 2024, Burton created and hosted the podcast LeVar Burton Reads, often described as "Reading Rainbow for adults". In October 2024, Burton appeared as the host of the Trivial Pursuit television game show broadcast on The CW network and streaming online.
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Filmography
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Family Guy
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
The Daily Show
Futurama
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Jeopardy!
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Adventure Time
Charmed
INVINCIBLE
Star Trek: The Next Generation
JAG
Murder, She Wrote
The Love Boat
The View
Star Trek: Voyager
The Big Bang Theory
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Batman: The Animated Series
Hell's Kitchen
Community
NCIS: New Orleans
Scorpion
The Legend of Vox Machina
Star Trek: Enterprise
Las Vegas
Star Trek: Picard
One Night Only
Tamron Hall
Leverage: Redemption
Perception
NCIS: Hawaiʻi
Gargoyles
Trapper John, M.D.
PBS News Weekend
Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!
Captain Planet and the Planeteers
Becker
The Eric Andre Show
Reading Rainbow
Transformers: Rescue Bots
Star Trek: First Contact
Explained
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
Pinky and the Brain
OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes
Star Trek: Insurrection
Star Trek: Nemesis
Finding Your Roots
Roots
Carol & the End of the World
Star Trek: Generations
Boomtown
The Ready Room
100 Years of Warner Bros.
Weather Hunters
Strip Law
Shatner's Raw Nerve
The Problem with Jon Stewart
Trivial Pursuit
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