Biography
LeVar Burton is an American actor, director and television host. He played Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge in the series Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994) and the film Star Trek: First Contact (1996), and portrayed Kunta Kinte in the miniseries Roots (1977).
Born in Landstuhl, Germany, in 1957 and raised in Sacramento, California, Burton studied at the University of Southern California. He hosted the educational series Reading Rainbow from 1983 to 2006 and has directed episodes of several television series. He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1990.
