LeVar Burton
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
118
Gender
Male
Birthday
1957-02-16 (68 years old)
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.
Known For
Family Guy
Family Guy
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
The Daily Show
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Jeopardy!
Jeopardy!
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Futurama
Star Trek: Voyager
Adventure Time
Murder, She Wrote
The Big Bang Theory
The Love Boat
Community
The Legend of Vox Machina
Hell's Kitchen
Batman: The Animated Series
The View
Trapper John, M.D.
Tamron Hall
Gargoyles
The Ready Room
Reading Rainbow
Explained
Star Trek: Picard
Becker
Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!
Perception
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
Finding Your Roots
Captain Planet and the Planeteers
Leverage: Redemption
Roots
The Eric Andre Show
PBS News Weekend
Star Trek: First Contact
Carol & the End of the World
Transformers: Rescue Bots
OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes
Superman/Batman: Public Enemies
Boomtown
Ali
100 Years of Warner Bros.
Emergency Room
Star Trek: Nemesis
Deadly Games
Star Trek: Insurrection
The Shuttlepod Show
Firestorm: 72 Hours in Oakland
Star Trek: Generations
Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Best of Both Worlds
Roots
Christy
Rise of the Zombies
The Problem with Jon Stewart
Yesterday's Target
Star Trek: 30 Years and Beyond
I Love Liberty
The Jensen Project
To the Journey: Looking Back at Star Trek: Voyager
Houston Knights
Grambling's White Tiger
Roots: The Gift
The Captain and Tennille
Butterfly in the Sky
Weird City
The Muppets Go Hollywood
The Hunter
Liberty
Reach for Me
The Supernaturals
Blizzard
Scripps National Spelling Bee
Looking for Mr. Goodbar
Shatner's Raw Nerve
Journey's End - The Saga of Star Trek: The Next Generation
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Behind the Scenes
40 Years of Star Trek
And They're Off
Star Trek: Picard - The IMAX Live Series Finale Event
Tom Swift
Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones
Mickey's 50
Dummy
Definition Please
Lennon or McCartney
Star Trek: 25th Anniversary Special
The Jesse Owens Story
Our Friend, Martin
The Midnight Hour
MADtv
Beyond the Spotlight
Booker
Almos' a Man
Steve McQueen: The Essence of Cool
US Against the World
Central Park
And the Children Shall Lead
The Acorn People
Reunification - 25 Years After Star Trek: The Next Generation
Trivial Pursuit
Battered
Transformers: Rescue Bots - Rescue Family
Trekkies
Taken in Broad Daylight
Brentwood
Secrets of Sacred Architecture
A Star Is Drawn: Rob Simone's Look Inside Comic-Con
One in a Million: The Ron LeFlore Story
Stardate Revisited - The Origin of Star Trek: The Next Generation
Parallel Lives
The Star Trek Saga: From One Generation to the Next
Star Trek: Federation Science
Billy: Portrait of a Street Kid
A Special Friendship
School of the Future
