LeVar Burton
Profile info
Known forActing
GenderMale
Birthday16 February 1957 (69 years old)
Place of birthLandstuhl, Rhineland Palatinate, Germany
Known credits141
Biography
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 …
One Night Only
2026 · Rick
Strip Law
2026 · (voice)
Weather Hunters
2025 · Flexspecs (voice)
Weather Hunters
2025 · Great Grandpa Wallace (voice)
To the Journey: Looking Back at Star Trek: Voyager
2024 · Self
Trivial Pursuit
2024 · Self - Host
Butterfly in the Sky
2024 · Self
Carol & the End of the World
2023 · (voice)
100 Years of Warner Bros.
2023 · Self
Star Trek: Picard - The IMAX Live Series Finale Event
2023 · Commodore Geordi La Forge
The Right to Read
2023 · Executive Producer
Tom Swift
2022 · Barclay (voice)
Secrets of Sacred Architecture
2022 · Narrator (voice)
The Shuttlepod Show
2022 · Self
The Legend of Vox Machina
2022 · Undead Thordak (voice)
The Problem with Jon Stewart
2021 · Self
NCIS: Hawaiʻi
2021 · Director
Leverage: Redemption
2021 · Mr. Blanche
INVINCIBLE
2021 · Suit AI (voice)
Beyond the Spotlight
2020
Definition Please
2020 · LeVar Burton
Star Trek: Picard
2020 · Commodore Geordi La Forge
Tamron Hall
2019 · Self - Guest
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019 · Self
Weird City
2019 · Dr. Negari
The Ready Room
2019 · Self
Brentwood
2018 · LeVar Burton
Explained
2018 · Narrator (voice)
OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes
2017 · Kwame
Transformers: Rescue Bots - Rescue Family
2017
School of the Future
2016
Roots
2016 · Ephraim
Roots
2016 · Co-Executive Producer
Lennon or McCartney
2014 · Self
Star Trek: The Next Generation - All Good Things...
2014 · Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge
A Star Is Drawn: Rob Simone's Look Inside Comic-Con
2014 · Self
NCIS: New Orleans
2014 · Director
Scorpion
2014 · Director
Star Trek: The Next Generation - Chain of Command
2014 · Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge
Star Trek: The Next Generation - Unification
2013 · Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge
PBS News Weekend
2013 · Himself (voice)
Star Trek: The Next Generation - Redemption
2013 · Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge
Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Best of Both Worlds
2013 · Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge (archive footage)
Reunification - 25 Years After Star Trek: The Next Generation
2012 · Self
Rise of the Zombies
2012 · Dr. Dan Halpern
Stardate Revisited - The Origin of Star Trek: The Next Generation
2012 · Self
Perception
2012 · Paul Haley
Perception
2012 · Director
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