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LeVar Burton
Sign in to saveAlso known as Levardis Robert Martyn Burton Jr., Levardis Burton Jr., Levardis Burton, Levardis Robert Martyn Burton, Jr.
American actor, director, and television host (born 1957)
Person · Open Library
- 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
via Open Library + Wikidata
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
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1957
Member of
via MusicBrainz · CC0
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 18,616x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,786x
- UK Biobank: An Open Access Resource for Identifying the Causes of a Wide Range of Complex Diseases of Middle and Old Age
· 2015 · cited 12,391x
- A study of the conditions and mechanism of the diphenylamine reaction for the colorimetric estimation of deoxyribonucleic acid
· 1956 · cited 10,214x
- Genome-wide association study of 14,000 cases of seven common diseases and 3,000 shared controls
· 2007 · cited 7,930x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “I personally believe that education is the key to freedom. Actually, literacy is the key to freedom because you can educate yourself.”
- “My life was changed forever. My first day as an actor, Cicely Tyson played my mother, Maya Angelou played my grandmother. I was 19, and they embraced me as a peer. They schooled me. They certainly taught me what it meant to be a professional, but they assumed that because I was there I belonged there, and they treated me as such. It was an extraordinary experience for a young person.”
- “I wouldn’t want to be a young and emerging talent in today’s environment of the 24-hour news cycle and social media and a camera in everyone’s hand. I can’t imagine how much that adds to the burden of the journey.”
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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
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “LeVar Burton” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.