PERSON: Levar Burton

Self-employed

Actor

LeVardis Robert Martyn Burton Jr. (born February 16, 1957), professionally known as LeVar Burton, is an American actor, presenter, director, producer, and author.

Burton is best known for his roles as the young Kunta Kinte in the 1977 award-winning ABC television miniseries "Roots," Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge in "Star Trek: The Next Generation," and as the host and executive producer of the PBS children's program "Reading Rainbow."

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