LeVar Burton

Known for ActingBorn 1957-02-16 (age 69)Landstuhl, Rhineland Palatinate, Germany

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.Read more

Movies & web series

The Shuttlepod Show

Transformers: Rescue Bots - Rescue Family

Almos' a Man

Star Trek: The Next Generation - Redemption

A Special Friendship

And the Children Shall Lead

INVINCIBLE

Emergency Room

Battered

Mickey's 50

Weather Hunters

Adventure Time

Dummy

Batman: The Animated Series

Butterfly in the Sky

The Legend of Vox Machina

Futurama

Scorpion

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Christy

Brentwood

Charmed

OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes

Reading Rainbow

Community

Gargoyles

The Eric Andre Show

The Big Bang Theory

Deadly Games

Star Trek: Picard - The IMAX Live Series Finale Event

100 Years of Warner Bros.

The Jesse Owens Story

NCIS: Hawaiʻi

Booker

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Billy: Portrait of a Street Kid

Star Trek: Voyager

Explained

Pinky and the Brain

Carol & the End of the World

Star Trek: Enterprise

Leverage: Redemption

Star Trek: Picard

NCIS: New Orleans

The Problem with Jon Stewart

Central Park

Family Guy

Transformers: Rescue Bots