LeVar Burton
（重定向自LeVar）
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![Burton with social activist and former Second Lady Tipper Gore](/Images/godic/202501/24/Tipper_Gore2416.jpg")
![Burton at the Schlow Centre Region Library, January 29, 2007](/Images/godic/202501/24/Levar_burton2416.jpg")
![Burton with Brent Spiner and William Shatner in July 2010](/Images/godic/202501/24/BrentSpinerWilliamShatnerLevarBurtonJuly20102416.jpg")
Levardis Robert Martyn Burton, Jr. (born February 16, 1957), professionally known as LeVar Burton, is an American actor, presenter, director, and author. He 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 of the long-running PBS children's series Reading Rainbow. He has also directed a number of television episodes.