LeVar Burton
American actor, director, and television host
- Born
- 16 February 1957, Landstuhl
- Age
- 69
- Birth name
- Levardis Robert Martyn Burton Jr.
Levardis Robert Martyn Burton (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) and 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.
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