LeVar Burton

Levardis Robert Martyn Burton Jr.

Born February 16, 1957· Landstuhl, Rhineland Palatinate, Germany

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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…

Known for

Filmography

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Star Trek: The Next Generation1987

Scorpion

Charmed

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine1993

Star Trek: Voyager

Star Trek: Voyager1995

NCIS: Hawaiʻi

NCIS: Hawaiʻi2021

Star Trek: Enterprise

Star Trek: Enterprise2001

NCIS: New Orleans

NCIS: New Orleans2014

JAG

Also in front of the camera

The roles they played on screen.