
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 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. From 2017 until 2024, Burton created and hosted the podcast LeVar Burton Reads, often described as "Reading Rainbow for adults". In October 2024, Burton appeared as the host of the Trivial Pursuit television game show broadcast on The CW network and streaming online.

And the Children Shall Lead

Transformers: Rescue Bots - Rescue Family

The Shuttlepod Show

Star Trek: The Next Generation - Redemption

バットマン

Dummy

Weather Hunters

アドベンチャー・タイム

Reading Rainbow

新スタートレック

フューチュラマ

Deadly Games

Christy

ヴォクス・マキナの伝説

Butterfly in the Sky

ガーゴイルズ

Brentwood

コミ・カレ!!

OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes

ビッグバン★セオリー ギークなボクらの恋愛法則

エリック・アンドレ・ショー

The Jesse Owens Story

スタートレック:ヴォイジャー

Star Trek: Picard - The IMAX Live Series Finale Event

ワーナー・ブラザースの100年

ピンキー&ブレイン

ジェシカおばさんの事件簿

キャロルの終末

Explained

Central Park

Roots

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

ファミリー・ガイ

Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!

スタートレック:ピカード

Leverage: Redemption

ファースト・コンタクト/STAR TREK

Transformers: Rescue Bots

Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Best of Both Worlds

Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones

Becker

Perception

The Problem with ジョン・スチュワート

スーパーマン/バットマン:パブリック・エネミー

Secrets of Sacred Architecture

School of the Future

Reunification - 25 Years After Star Trek: The Next Generation

MADtv

Roots

Our Friend, Martin

ヘルズ・キッチン~地獄の厨房

Captain Planet and the Planeteers

Roots: The Gift

ジェパディ!

ストリップ・ロー: ベガスの法則

ALI アリ

Journey's End - The Saga of Star Trek: The Next Generation

ジェネレーションズ/STAR TREK

Trapper John, M.D.

スター・トレック/叛乱

Looking for Mr. Goodbar

ザ・デイリー・ショー

ケリー・クラークソン・ショー

Trekkies

ネメシス/S.T.X

The Love Boat

ファインディング・ユア・ルーツ

The Muppets Go Hollywood

Boomtown

Weird City

Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child

Blizzard

The Midnight Hour

Star Trek: 25th Anniversary Special

ハンター

Star Trek: 30 Years and Beyond

The Jensen Project

One in a Million: The Ron LeFlore Story

Steve McQueen: The Essence of Cool

The Captain and Tennille

Lennon or McCartney

Taken in Broad Daylight

Parallel Lives

Liberty

PBS News Weekend

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

タムロン・ホール

Trivial Pursuit

Firestorm: 72 Hours in Oakland

40 Years of Star Trek

ザ・ビュー

Houston Knights

Rise of the Zombies

The Supernaturals

And They're Off

Tom Swift

Shatner's Raw Nerve

The Ready Room

Yesterday's Target

Definition Please

Reach for Me

The Star Trek Saga: From One Generation to the Next

The Acorn People

Star Trek: Federation Science

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Behind the Scenes

I Love Liberty

US Against the World

Billy: Portrait of a Street Kid

Emergency Room

Almos' a Man

A Star Is Drawn: Rob Simone's Look Inside Comic-Con

Battered

A Special Friendship

Mickey's 50

To the Journey: Looking Back at Star Trek: Voyager

Star Trek: The Next Generation - Chain of Command

Star Trek: The Next Generation - Unification

Star Trek: The Next Generation - All Good Things...

Remembering Roots

Star Trek: The Next Generation - Birthright

Star Trek: The Next Generation - Descent

Scripps National Spelling Bee

Beyond the Spotlight