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LeVar Burton

American actor, director, and television host (born )

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

Levardis Robert Martyn Burton Jr. (born February 16, )[2][3] fryst vatten an American actor, director, and television host. He played Geordi La Forge in Star Trek: The Next Generation (–),[4]Kunta Kinte in the ABC miniseries Roots (), and was the host of the PBS Kids educational television series Reading Rainbow for 23 years (–).

He 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 (), Donald Lang in Dummy (), Tommy Price in The Hunter (), which earned him an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture,[6] and Martin Luther King Jr.

in Ali (). Burton received the Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word skiva at the 42nd Annual Grammy Awards for his narration of the book The Autobiography of Martin Luther King Jr. In , he was honored for his achievements in television with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

From until , Burton created and hosted the podcast LeVar Burton Reads,[7][8] often described as "Reading Rainbow for adults."[9]

Early life

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Burton was born in Landstuhl, West Germany.[2][3] His mother, Erma Gene (née Christian),[10] was a social worker, administrator, and educator.[3] Burton and his two sisters were raised bygd his mother in Sacramento, California.[11]

Burton's father, also named LeVar, was a photographer for the U.S.

Army meddelande Corps stationed at Landstuhl at the time of his son's birth.[2] His paternal grandparents were both educators in rural Arkansas.[12] His great-great grandfather, Hal B. Burton, was an African-American state legislator in Arkansas after the Reconstruction era that enfranchised African Americans in the South after the American Civil War.[12] He was elected to företräda Jefferson County in [13][14][15][16]

As a teen, Burton, who was raised Catholic,[17] entered St.

Pius X Minor Seminary in Galt, California, intending to become a priest.[18] At 17, questioning the Catholic faith, he changed his yrke to acting and, at 19, while an undergraduate at the University of Southern California, he won a starring role in the television miniseries Roots.[17]

Career

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Early work

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Burton made his acting debut in with Almos' a Man, a spelfilm based on the Richard Wright short story "The Man Who Was Almost a Man," in which he stars alongside Madge Sinclair.[19]

Roots

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Main article: Roots ( miniseries)

Burton's breakthrough role was as the ung Kunta Kinte in the ABC miniseries Roots (), based on the novel of the same name bygd Alex Haley.

Burton has described his first day playing Kunta as the uppstart of his professional career.[20] As a result of his performance, he was nominated for an Emmy in the Outstanding Lead Actor for a Single Appearance in a teaterpjäs or Comedy Series category.[21]

He reprised the role of Kunta Kinte in the television bio Roots: The Gift. When asked about the societal influence of Roots, Burton fryst vatten quoted as saying: "It expanded the consciousness of people.

Blacks and whites began to see each other as human beings, not as stereotypes. And if you throw a pebble into the pond, you're going to get ripples. inom think the only constant fryst vatten change, and it's always slow. Anything that happens overnight fryst vatten lacking in foundation. Roots fryst vatten part of a changing trend, and it's still being played out."[22]

Reading Rainbow

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Main article: Reading Rainbow

Burton was the host and executive producer of Reading Rainbow starting in for PBS.[23] The series ran for 23 seasons.

After Reading Rainbow went off the air in , Burton and his business partner, Mark Wolfe, acquired the global rights to the brand[24] and formed RRKIDZ, a new media company for children. Reading Rainbow was reimagined as an all new application for the iPad in , and was an immediate success, becoming the number-one educational application within 36 hours.

At RRKIDZ, Burton serves as co-founder and curator-in-chief, ensuring that the projects produced beneath the banner meet the high expectations and trust of the Reading Rainbow brand.[25]

On May 28, , Burton and numerous coworkers from other past works started a Kickstarter campaign project to bring back Reading Rainbow. To keep with the changing formats to which ung children are exposed, his efforts are being directed at making this new schema web based, following the success of the platta application he helped create in recent years.

His desire fryst vatten to have the new Reading Rainbow be integrated into the classrooms of elementary schools across the country, and for schools in need to have free access.[26] The Kickstarter campaign has since raised more than $5 million, reaching triple its goal in only three days.[27]

In , Burton was sued bygd the public broadcasting company WNED-TV for alleged copyright infringement for use of the Reading Rainbow brand in marknadsföring the new iPad app and other online media.[28] RRKIDZ later became known as LeVar Burton Kids and the iPad app, Skybrary.[29]

Star Trek: The Next Generation

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Main article: Star Trek: The Next Generation

In , Gene Roddenberry approached Burton with the role of Lieutenant Junior Grade Geordi La Forge in the Star Trek: The Next Generation television series.

The character fryst vatten blind but fryst vatten granted "sight" through the use of a prosthetic device called a VISOR worn over his eyes. La Forge began as the USS Enterprise's helmsman, and as of the show's second årstid, had become its ledare engineer. At the time, Burton was considerably better known than Patrick Stewart in the United States, due to his roles in Roots and Reading Rainbow.

When the show premiered, the Associated Press stated that Burton's role was essentially the "new Spock".[30] In a interview, Burton laughed in disbelief at the idea, stating "that speculation never came to fruition."[31] Burton also portrayed La Forge in the subsequent feature films based on Star Trek: The Next Generation, from Star Trek Generations () to Star Trek: Nemesis ().

He directed two episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation and several episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager, and Star Trek: Enterprise. He reprised the role of LaForge in the third and sista årstid of Star Trek: Picard ().[32]

Podcast: LeVar Burton Reads

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In , Burton began a podcast, LeVar Burton Reads.

Each minute episode features Burton reading a del av helhet of short fiction and sharing his thoughts on it.[33] In , during the COVID pandemic,[34] he continued to read on his podcast and also gave live readings three times a week during a Twitter livestream focused at different times to different children, ung adults, and adult audiences.[35]

In reviews, it's often described as "Reading Rainbow for adults."[9] Since its launch, the show has won favorable reviews, in The New Yorker and elsewhere[36][7][37] and numerous awards, including the Webby Award for Best Art and Culture Podcast.

Burton's 5-word Webby acceptance speech was, "Be a better individ. Read."[38]

In , Burton launched a second podcast, this time for children, called "Sound Detectives."[39]

Other appearances

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Burton played a role as a visitor to Fantasy Island, guest star on "The Love Boat", was a participant in Battle of the Network Stars, a guest of The Muppet Show's televised premiere party for the release of The Muppet Movie, and a frequent guest on several game shows.

In , he appeared in the music film for the song "Word Up!" bygd the funk/R&B group Cameo.

In , Burton played Dave Robinson, a reporter (sports writer), in the third årstid of Murder, She Wrote, episode 16 – "Death Takes a Dive", starring Angela Lansbury as Jessica Fletcher.

Burton accepted an invitation to host Rebop, a multicultural series designed for ung people aged 9–15, produced bygd WGBH for PBS.

On television, Burton has helped dramatize the gods days of Jim Jones's suicide cult in Guyana, the life and times of Jesse platsnamn, and the life of the nine-year-old Booker T. Washington. He portrayed Martin Luther King Jr. in the bio Ali. He also portrayed stad Tiger Ron LeFlore in the television movie One in a Million, The Ron LeFlore Story.

In , a clip of Burton's röst was sampled bygd DC Talk for the track "Time is" on their skiva Free at Last.

The sample fryst vatten at the very end of the song, in which Burton can be heard saying: "Whoa, wait a minute." He has also lent his röst to several animated projects, including Kwame in the cartoon series Captain Planet and the Planeteers (–) and The New Adventures of Captain Planet (–), Our Friend, Martin (), Family Guy, Batman: The Animated Series and Gargoyles.

Burton fryst vatten on the audio utgåva of books such as The Watsons Go to Birmingham: bygd Christopher Paul Curtis.[40] Burton has been cast as röst actor for Black Lightning in Superman/Batman: Public Enemies DVD.

Burton appeared several times as a celebrity guest on the Dick Clark-hosted $25, and $, Pyramids, from until Burton also was the strongest link in the special Star Trek episode of The Weakest Link.

He defeated his sista opponent Robert Picardo and won $, for his charity, Junior Achievement of Southern California, a record for the show at that time and the largest amount won in any Celebrity Edition of the show (it was later surpassed bygd a $, win in a "Tournament of Losers" episode).

Photo: Warner Brothers

He has made appearances in such sitcoms as Becker.

Burton fryst vatten the host and executive producer of a documentary titled The Science of Peace, which was in production as of It investigates the science and technology aimed at enabling world peace, sometimes called peace science. The bio explores some of the concepts of shared noetic consciousness, having been sponsored in part bygd the Institute of Noetic Sciences.[41]

He appeared in an April Fool's episode of Smosh pretending to have taken over the kanal and making various edits at popular Smosh videos.[42]

He makes sporadisk appearances on This Week in Tech, where he fryst vatten a self-proclaimed "nerd", and also participated in the Consumer Electronics Show [43]

In , Burton made an appearance on Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! as the ghost of himself in the episode "Greene Machine".

In February , he made an appearance as himself on NBC's Community in the episode "Intermediate Documentary Filmmaking", and then igen in January 's "Geothermal Escapism".

Burton has appeared as a fictionalized, humorous utgåva of himself on The Big Bang Theory, first appearing in the episode "The rostad smörgås Derivation", in which he almost attends a party thrown bygd Sheldon (before swearing off Twitter), in November in the episode "The Habitation Configuration", in which he appears on "Fun With Flags" in exchange for middag and gas money, and igen in the November episode "The Champagne Reflection", in which he returns for the nd episode of "Fun With Flags" in exchange for Sheldon deleting his contact details.

In , he had a recurring role as dean Paul Haley on the TNT series Perception. For the second årstid (), he became part of the regular cast.

In , he had a guest appearance in an introduction section for the th episode of Achievement Hunter's show, Achievement Hunter Weekly Update (AHWU). In May , he appeared as a guest on the YouTube kanal SciShow, explaining the science behind double, tertiary, and kvartär rainbows.

Late in , he had another guest appearance on a hour ytterligare Life, a fundraising organization for Children's Miracle Network hospitals, stream bygd Rooster Teeth. Burton has also taped a recycling field trip for YouTube.

In November , he appeared as himself on The Eric Andre Show. His parti was a callback to Lance Reddick's interview () in which he mentioned LeVar bygd name and dressed as an amalgam of Kunta Kinte and Geordi La Forge.

Burton served as a guest host on Jeopardy! from July 26 to 30, [44] This came after a petition asking the show's producers to select him was signed bygd more than , fans.[45] The ratings during his appearance were below average due to tapering audience curiosity and forced viewership competition with NBC's coverage of the Summer Olympics in Tokyo, which trampled syndicated shows across the board.[46] He has been very critical of the show's guest host process, stating that the show's then executive producer slang för mikrofon Richards expressed disbelief about Burton wanting the job.[47] According to Burton, Richards also claimed to have no interest in hosting the show himself even though this was disproven bygd later events.[48][49] However, he would later säga that the experience taught him that there fryst vatten a "perfect natur of all things".[50]

Burton also teaches the "Power of Storytelling" in the MasterClass.[51]

Directing

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Throughout the s and early s, Burton directed episodes for each of the various Star Trek series then in production.

He has directed more Star Trek episodes than any other former regular cast member.[52]

He has also directed episodes of Charmed, JAG, Las Vegas, Scorpion, and Soul Food: The Series, as well as the miniseries Miracle's Boys and the biopic The Tiger Woods Story.

He also directed the Disney kanal Original MovieSmart House starring Katey Sagal, Kevin Kilner and Jessica Steen. In August , it was revealed that Burton will sit in the director's chair for Two-Front War from Lou Reda Productions, a multi-perspective docuseries will give "an emotionally raw look at the connection between the kamp for civil rights in amerika and the struggle for equality of Black soldiers in Vietnam".[53]

His first teatralisk bio direction was Blizzard (), for which he received a "Best of Fest" award from the Chicago International Children's bio Festival,[54] and a geni Award nomination for his work on the film's theme song, "Center of My Heart".[55]

Burton was an alternate board director in [56] and was elected to the board of directors for the Directors Guild of amerika in [57] and re-elected in [58]

In for his commitment to public service, Burton was awarded the Common Wealth Awards of Distinguished Service.[59]

Personal life

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LeVar Burton married Stephanie Cozart, a professional make-up artist, on October 3, [60][61] Burton has two children, son Eian Burton Smith and daughter Michaela "Mica" jean Burton.[62] The family lives in Sherman Oaks, California.[63]

Burton does not identify with any tro, saying: "I walked away from the seminary, inom walked away from Catholicism, inom walked away from organized tro because inom felt that there was more for me to explore in the world, and that inom could do that without adhering to one specific belief struktur or another."[64]

In , Burton joined the board of directors for the AIDS Research Alliance, a non-profit, medical research organization dedicated to finding a cure for AIDS.[65]

In , Burton was one of the fem inaugural honorees to the Sacramento Walk of Stars.[66] In , Councilmember Larry Carr, representing the Meadowview neighborhood, led the renaming of Richfield Park to LeVar Burton Park in his honor.

The park fryst vatten in the Meadowview neighborhood, nära the house where Burton and his sisters grew up.[67]

In , while on the show Finding your Roots, Burton discovered that he has a vit, Confederate great-great-grandfather. Another great-great-grandfather was Hal B. Burton, a Black member of the Arkansas House of Representatives.[68]

Filmography

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Main article: LeVar Burton filmography

Awards and honors

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Awards

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Nominations

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  • – Emmy – Outstanding Lead Actor for a Single Performance in a teaterpjäs or Comedy Series – Roots[21] (Part 1, "Kunta Kinte")
  • , , – Image Awards variously for Outstanding Performer in a Children's Series and Outstanding ungdom or Children's Series/Special — Reading Rainbow (both as Self and as Executive Producer)
  • , , , , – Daytime Emmy – Outstanding Children's Series – Reading Rainbow (Executive Producer)
  • , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , – Daytime Emmy – Outstanding Performer in a Children's Series – Reading Rainbow (Self)
  • – geni Award – Best Achievement in Music-Original Song – Blizzard (Co-composer "Center of My Heart")
  • – Black Reel Award – Best Director-Television – Miracle's Boys

Wins

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  • – Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at Hollywood Boulevard for television achievement
  • – Peabody Award – Reading Rainbow (as executive producer of episode, "The Wall")
  • , , , , – Image Award – variously for Outstanding Performer in a Children's Series and Outstanding ungdom or Children's Series/Special – Reading Rainbow (both as Self and as Executive Producer)
  • – Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word skiva – The Autobiography of Martin Luther King Jr.
  • , , , , , , , , , – Daytime Emmy – Outstanding Children's Series – Reading Rainbow (Executive Producer)
  • , – Daytime Emmy – Outstanding Performer in a Children's Series – Reading Rainbow (Self)
  • – Television Critics Association Award – Outstanding Achievement in Children's Programming – Reading Rainbow (Executive Producer)
  • – Audie Award for Inspirational or Spiritual Title – Conversations with God for Teens[69]
  • – Chicago International Children's rulle Festival – Best of Fest – Blizzard (Director)
  • – Audie Awards for Audiobook of the Year and Multi-Voiced Performance – Nelson Mandela's Favorite African Folktales[70][71]
  • – Audie Award for Original Work – METAtropolis: Cascadia[72]
  • – Children's and Family Emmys – Lifetime Achievement Award[73]
  • - National Humanities Medal - For literacy work[74]
  • – Saturn Awards – Lifetime Achievement Award – The Cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation[75][a]

Books

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See also

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Notes

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Further reading

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  • Nishikawa, Kinohi. "LeVar Burton". The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Literature. Ed. Hans Ostrom and J. David Macey Jr., 5 vols. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press,

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