Personal Info
Levar Burton
Levardis Robert Martyn Burton Jr.
LeVar Burton
Acting
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 …
Known For
Filmography
Movies
One Night Only
Butterfly in the Sky
as Self
To the Journey: Looking Back at Star Trek: Voyager
as Self
Star Trek: Picard - The IMAX Live Series Finale Event
as Commodore Geordi La Forge
Secrets of Sacred Architecture
as Narrator (voice)
Definition Please
as LeVar Burton
Brentwood
as LeVar Burton
Transformers: Rescue Bots - Rescue Family
School of the Future
Lennon or McCartney
as Self
TV Shows
Strip Law
as (voice) · 1 ep.
Weather Hunters
as Great Grandpa Wallace (voice) · 1 ep.
Trivial Pursuit
as Self - Host · 33 ep.
100 Years of Warner Bros.
as Self · 3 ep.
Carol & the End of the World
as (voice) · 1 ep.
The Legend of Vox Machina
as Undead Thordak (voice) · 2 ep.
The Shuttlepod Show
as Self · 1 ep.
Tom Swift
as Barclay (voice) · 10 ep.
INVINCIBLE
as Suit AI (voice) · 2 ep.
Leverage: Redemption
as Mr. Blanche · 1 ep.
