LeVar Burton
American actor, director, and television host (born 1957)
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Born 1957 · age 69United States
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Levardis Robert Martyn Burton 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.
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- National Humanities Medal
- Ignyte Award for Best Fiction Podcast
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- NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Performance in a Youth/Children's Series or Special
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