LeVar Burton
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1957-02-16
Place of Birth
Landstuhl, Rhineland Palatinate, Germany
LeVar Burton
Biography
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article about LeVar Burton, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Also Known For
Star Trek: Generations
Nov 18, 1994
Star Trek: Nemesis
Dec 13, 2002
Star Trek: First Contact
Nov 22, 1996
Star Trek: Insurrection
Dec 11, 1998
Stardate Revisited - The Origin of Star Trek: The Next Generation
Jul 23, 2012
The Hunter
Aug 01, 1980
Superman/Batman: Public Enemies
Sep 29, 2009
The Midnight Hour
Nov 01, 1985
I Love Liberty
Mar 21, 1982
Secrets of Sacred Architecture
Apr 02, 2022
The Jensen Project
Jul 16, 2010
Looking for Mr. Goodbar
Oct 19, 1977
Star Trek: Picard - The IMAX Live Series Finale Event
Apr 19, 2023
Trekkies
Oct 18, 1997
Butterfly in the Sky
Mar 17, 2024
The Supernaturals
May 09, 1986
Taken in Broad Daylight
Nov 10, 2009
Star Trek: The Next Generation - Time's Arrow
Jun 13, 1992
Reach for Me
Oct 01, 2008
Star Trek: Federation Science
Jan 25, 1992
Star Trek: The Next Generation - Chain of Command
Dec 14, 1992
Journey's End - The Saga of Star Trek: The Next Generation
May 15, 1994
Roots: The Gift
Dec 11, 1988
US Against the World
Sep 07, 1977
Rise of the Zombies
Oct 27, 2012
Our Friend, Martin
Jan 12, 1999
The Jesse Owens Story
Jul 09, 1984
Billy: Portrait of a Street Kid
Sep 12, 1977
One in a Million: The Ron LeFlore Story
Sep 26, 1978
Dummy
May 27, 1979
Star Trek: The Next Generation - Redemption
Sep 23, 1991
The Acorn People
Mar 02, 1981
Emergency Room
Jul 18, 1983
Yesterday's Target
Apr 22, 1996
Parallel Lives
Aug 04, 1994
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Behind the Scenes
Jan 04, 1993
Steve McQueen: The Essence of Cool
Jun 01, 2005
Almos' a Man
Apr 05, 1976
A Star Is Drawn: Rob Simone's Look Inside Comic-Con
Nov 01, 2014
Booker
Oct 01, 1984
Firestorm: 72 Hours in Oakland
Feb 07, 1993
Star Trek: The Next Generation - electronic press kit
Jan 01, 1987
Star Trek: 30 Years and Beyond
Oct 06, 1996
Lennon or McCartney
Dec 12, 2014
Ali
Dec 10, 2001
Grambling's White Tiger
Oct 04, 1981
A Special Friendship
Mar 31, 1987
Battered
Sep 26, 1978
School of the Future
Sep 14, 2016
Central Park
Apr 01, 1990
Star Trek: 25th Anniversary Special
Sep 28, 1991
40 Years of Star Trek
Jan 01, 2006
And the Children Shall Lead
Jan 01, 1985
Brentwood
Aug 02, 2018
Mickey's 50
Nov 19, 1978
Blizzard
May 15, 2003
The Star Trek Saga: From One Generation to the Next
Oct 03, 1988
Transformers: Rescue Bots - Rescue Family
Jun 20, 2017
Liberty
Jun 23, 1986
Definition Please
Aug 10, 2020
Star Trek: The Next Generation - Unification
Nov 02, 1991
Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Best of Both Worlds
Apr 25, 2013
Star Trek: The Next Generation - Gambit
Oct 11, 1993
Reunification - 25 Years After Star Trek: The Next Generation
Nov 04, 2012
The Muppets Go Hollywood
May 16, 1979
Star Trek: The Next Generation - All Good Things...
May 23, 1994
Star Trek: The Next Generation - Descent
Jun 21, 1993
Star Trek: The Next Generation - Birthright
Feb 20, 1993
To the Journey: Looking Back at Star Trek: Voyager
Nov 07, 2024
Captain Planet and the Planeteers
Sep 15, 1990
Murder, She Wrote
Sep 30, 1984
Family Guy
Jan 31, 1999
Trapper John, M.D.
Sep 23, 1979
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Sep 28, 1987
Boomtown
Sep 29, 2002
Star Trek: Voyager
Jan 16, 1995
Gargoyles
Oct 24, 1994
MADtv
Oct 14, 1995
The View
Aug 11, 1997
Roots
Jan 23, 1977
The Captain and Tennille
Sep 20, 1976
Star Trek: Picard
Jan 23, 2020
Batman: The Animated Series
Sep 05, 1992
Tamron Hall
Sep 09, 2019
Transformers: Rescue Bots
Feb 18, 2012
Community
Sep 17, 2009
Jeopardy!
Sep 10, 1984
Perception
Jul 09, 2012
Tom Swift
May 31, 2022
Hell's Kitchen
May 30, 2005
The Big Bang Theory
Sep 24, 2007
The Love Boat
Sep 24, 1977
The Daily Show
Jul 22, 1996
Scripps National Spelling Bee
Family Guy
Jan 31, 1999
Reading Rainbow
Jun 06, 1983
The Shuttlepod Show
Feb 20, 2022
Leverage: Redemption
Jul 08, 2021
The Problem with Jon Stewart
Sep 30, 2021
100 Years of Warner Bros.
May 25, 2023
Houston Knights
Mar 11, 1987
Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!
Feb 11, 2007
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Oct 01, 1962
Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones
Apr 15, 1980
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Sep 09, 2019
Carol & the End of the World
Dec 15, 2023
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
Mar 12, 1995
Shatner's Raw Nerve
Dec 02, 2008
Beyond the Spotlight
Nov 18, 2020
Explained
May 23, 2018
PBS News Weekend
Sep 07, 2013
Adventure Time
Apr 05, 2010
The Ready Room
Jan 25, 2019
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Jul 16, 2009
OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes
Aug 01, 2017
Trivial Pursuit
Oct 03, 2024
Weird City
Feb 13, 2019
The Eric Andre Show
May 20, 2012
Becker
Nov 02, 1998
Finding Your Roots
Mar 24, 2012
Futurama
Mar 28, 1999
Deadly Games
Sep 05, 1995
The Legend of Vox Machina
Jan 27, 2022
Roots
May 30, 2016
Honest Trailers
Feb 13, 2012
