LeVar Burton [2390] Gender: Male Popularity: 1.2742 Birthplace: Landstuhl, Rhineland Palatinate, Germany Birthday: 1957-02-16 Age: 68 years Movies: 61 Links: Homepage, IMDB 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. To the Journey: 2024-11-07 Butterfly in the2024-03-17 Secrets of Sacre2022-04-02 Definition Pleas2020-08-10 Brentwood2018-08-02 School of the Fu2016-09-14 Lennon or McCart2014-12-12 A Star Is Drawn:2014-11-01 Reunification - 2012-11-04 Rise of the Zomb2012-10-27 Stardate Revisit2012-07-23 The Jensen Proje2010-07-16 Superman/Batman:2009-09-29 Taken in Broad D2009-11-10 Reach for Me2008-10-01 40 Years of Star2006-01-01 Steve McQueen: T2005-06-01 Blizzard2003-05-15 Star Trek: Nemes2002-12-13 Ali2001-12-10 Our Friend, Mart1999-01-12 Star Trek: Insur1998-12-11 Trekkies1997-10-18 Star Trek: First1996-11-22 Star Trek: 30 Ye1996-10-06 Yesterday's Targ1996-04-22 Star Trek: Gener1994-11-18 Parallel Lives1994-08-04 Star Trek: The N1994-05-23 Journey's End - 1994-05-15 Star Trek: The N1993-06-21 Star Trek: The N1993-02-20 Firestorm: 72 Ho1993-02-07 Star Trek: Deep 1993-01-04 Star Trek: Feder1992-01-25 Star Trek: 25th 1991-09-28 Central Park1990-04-01 Roots: The Gift1988-12-11 The Star Trek Sa1988-10-03 A Special Friend1987-03-31 Star Trek: The N1987-01-01 Liberty1986-06-23 The Supernatural1986-05-09 The Midnight Hou1985-11-01 And the Children1985-01-01 Booker1984-10-01 The Jesse Owens 1984-07-09 Emergency Room1983-07-18 I Love Liberty1982-03-21 Grambling's Whit1981-10-04 The Acorn People1981-03-02 The Hunter1980-08-01 Dummy1979-05-27 The Muppets Go H1979-05-16 Mickey's 501978-11-19 Battered1978-09-26 One in a Million1978-09-26 Looking for Mr. 1977-10-19 Billy: Portrait 1977-09-12 US Against the W1977-09-07 Almos' a Man1976-04-05