Actor
LeVar Burton
February 16, 1957 · 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).
Notable work
7.9The Big Bang Theory (2007)
as LeVar Burton
8.6INVINCIBLE (2021)
as Suit AI (voice)
7.4Family Guy (1999)
as Vern (voice) and as LeVar Burton (voice)
8.2Scorpion (2014)
Director
8.4Futurama (1999)
as Unlicensed Hologram of LeVar Burton (voice)
8.5Adventure Time (2010)
as Bubble (voice)
8.2Charmed (1998)
Director
8Community (2009)
as LeVar Burton
7.3Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
as Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge
7.2Star Trek: Picard (2020)
as Commodore Geordi La Forge
6.7Ali (2001)
as Martin Luther King, Jr.
8.6Batman: The Animated Series (1992)
as Hayden Sloane (voice)
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