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LeVar Burton

American actor, director, and television host (born 1957)

Person · Open Library

Born: 1957-02-16
Works: 10

Top works

Christy Series 2 episodes on 1 cass.
This Beautiful Day
Howie & Wyatt
Kids Book about Imagination
The Rhino Who Swallowed a Storm

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Film & TV

Acting · 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…

Known for

One Night Only2026
Strip Law — (voice)2026
Weather Hunters — Flexspecs (voice)2025
Weather Hunters — Great Grandpa Wallace (voice)2025
Butterfly in the Sky — Self2024
To the Journey: Looking Back at Star Trek: Voyager — Self2024
Trivial Pursuit — Self - Host2024
Star Trek: Picard - The IMAX Live Series Finale Event — Commodore Geordi La Forge2023
100 Years of Warner Bros. — Self2023
Carol & the End of the World — (voice)2023

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Country: US
Active from: 1957-02-16

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 301
Total plays: 1,709

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,495x
A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,321x
UK Biobank: An Open Access Resource for Identifying the Causes of a Wide Range of Complex Diseases of Middle and Old Age
· 2015 · cited 11,836x
A study of the conditions and mechanism of the diphenylamine reaction for the colorimetric estimation of deoxyribonucleic acid
· 1956 · cited 10,206x
Genome-wide association study of 14,000 cases of seven common diseases and 3,000 shared controls
· 2007 · cited 7,904x

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Key facts

Born: Levardis Robert Martyn Burton , ( 1957-02-16 ) February 16, 1957 (age 69) , Landstuhl , West Germany
Citizenship: United States
Alma mater: University of Southern California
Occupations: Actor, television host, director, author
Years active: 1976–present
Spouse: Stephanie Cozart ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1992 )
Children: 2, including Mica
Awards: See Awards
Website: levarburton .com

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Key dates

Born: 16 February 1957

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: human
Family name: Burton
Gender: male
Citizenship: United States
Place of birth: Landstuhl
Occupation: television actor
Educated at: University of Southern California
Languages spoken: English language
Native language: American English
Award: National Humanities Medal

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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.

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.