levar burton

     

Levaris Robert Martyn Burton Jr. (born February 16, 1957, in Landstuhl, West Germany), professionally known as LeVar Burton, is a multiple Daytime Emmy Award and Grammy Award winning American actor, director and author who first came to prominence playing Kunta Kinte in the 1977 award-winning television miniseries Roots, based on the novel by Alex Haley. He is also well-known for his role of Geordi La Forge in Star Trek: The Next Generation and as the host of the PBS children's program Reading Rainbow.

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  • The 100th episode was directed by this man, Geordi La Forge on "The Next Generation"
  • Geordi LaForge, whom he played on "Star Trek: TNG", was named for a handicapped "Star Trek" fan who died in 1975
  • USC opened up a "Rainbow" of opportunities for this man, a drama student there when he was cast in "Roots"
  • Richard Burton won a Grammy in 1976; this man, no relation, won in 2000 for reading the words of Martin Luther King

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