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LeVar Burton

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

"LeVar" redirects here. For other people with the name, see LeVar (disambiguation).

Levardis Robert Martyn Burton Jr. (born February 16, 1957)^[2]^[3] is an American actor, director, and television host. He played Geordi La Forge in Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994),^[4]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.^[5]

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,^[6] 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 Mar

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LeVar Burton is an acclaimed actor, director, educator, and co-founder of the award-winning Skybrary app; former host and executive producer of PBS’s READING RAINBOW, and a lifelong children’s literacy advocate. He hosts the podcast LEVAR BURTON READS sharing the best in short fiction, and a YouTube series, THIS IS MY STORY, which highlights racism in America. The LEVAR BURTON BOOK CLUB lives on Fable, a new platform designed for book clubs and for social reading with the mission to improve mental wellness. LeVar starred as Kunta Kinte, in the groundbreaking mini-series ROOTS and in the television series and feature films STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION, as Lt. Cmdr. Geordi LaForge, chief engineer of the Enterprise. He has been nominated for three Primetime Emmy Awards and twenty-seven Daytime Emmy nominations, culminating in twenty-one wins. During it’s astonishing twenty-six year run, READING RAINBOW was not only one of the longest running children’s television shows in history but won more than twenty-five awards, including ten for outstanding series and the George Foster Peabod

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LeVar Burton

LeVar Burton, multi-award winning actor, director and education advocate, is best known to television audiences around the world for his portrayals of two iconic characters—Kunte Kinte in “Roots” and Geordi LaForge in “Star Trek: The Next Generation”—and for his 23 years as producer and host of the beloved PBS series “Reading Rainbow.” Burton is co-founder of the award-winning Reading Rainbow digital library, which has produced the #1 educational app and has just introduced SKYBRARY, the next generation of innovative children’s educational media on the web. He is co-Executive Producer of the upcoming multi-part remake of “Roots” and has received the Eliot-Pearson Award for Excellence in Children’s Media from Tufts University, the 2014 Los Angeles Times Book Prizes Innovator’s Award, and the 2015 Chicago Tribune Young Adult Literary Award. Burton is also the author of the new children’s book, The Rhino Who Swallowed a Storm.

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