Biography
Levardis Robert Martyn Burton is an American actor, director, and television host. He played Geordi La Forge in Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994) and 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.
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Awards & recognition
- National Humanities Medal · 2023
- Ignyte Award — Best Fiction Podcast · 2020
- The Ember Award · 2020
- NAACP Image Award — Outstanding Performance in a Youth/Children's Series or Special · 2003
- NAACP Image Award — Outstanding Performance in a Youth/Children's Series or Special · 2002
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- Grammy Award — Best Audio Book, Narration & Storytelling Recording · 1999
- NAACP Image Award — Outstanding Performance in a Youth/Children's Series or Special · 1999
- NAACP Image Award — Outstanding Performance in a Youth/Children's Series or Special · 1994
- NAACP Image Award — Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture · 1980
- Daytime Emmy Award
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
- Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award · 2006 · nominated
- Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award · 2005 · nominated
- NAACP Image Award — Outstanding Performance in a Youth/Children's Series or Special · 2005 · nominated
- Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award · 2004 · nominated
- NAACP Image Award — Outstanding Performance in a Youth/Children's Series or Special · 2003 · nominated
- NAACP Image Award — Outstanding Performance in a Youth/Children's Series or Special · 2002 · nominated
- NAACP Image Award — Outstanding Performance in a Youth/Children's Series or Special · 2001 · nominated
- Grammy Award — Best Audio Book, Narration & Storytelling Recording · 1999 · nominated
- NAACP Image Award — Outstanding Performance in a Youth/Children's Series or Special · 1999 · nominated
- NAACP Image Award — Outstanding Performance in a Youth/Children's Series or Special · 1998 · nominated
- NAACP Image Award — Outstanding Performance in a Youth/Children's Series or Special · 1994 · nominated
- NAACP Image Award — Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture · 1980 · nominated
- Primetime Emmy Award — Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series · 1977 · nominated
Filmography50+ titles
And the Children Shall Lead
Battered
INVINCIBLE
Batman: The Animated Series
Weather Hunters
Adventure Time
Futurama
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Reading Rainbow
The Legend of Vox Machina
Butterfly in the Sky
Scorpion
Charmed
Gargoyles
The Jesse Owens Story
OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes
Community
Billy: Portrait of a Street Kid
The Eric Andre Show
The Big Bang Theory
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Star Trek: Voyager
NCIS: Hawai'i
Pinky and the Brain
Explained
Star Trek: Enterprise
Murder, She Wrote
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Carol & the End of the World
Family Guy
Roots
NCIS: New Orleans
Transformers: Rescue Bots
Star Trek: First Contact
JAG
Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones
Leverage: Redemption
The Problem with Jon Stewart
Star Trek: Picard
Perception
Becker
One Night Only
Superman/Batman: Public Enemies
Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!
Las Vegas
Mad TV
Roots: The Gift
Strip Law
Secrets of Sacred Architecture
School of the Future