Basic Information About LeVar Burton
Category | Celebrities βΊ Actors |
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Professions | Actor, Television Director, Author, Presenter, Television producer, Voice Actor, Film director |
Net worth | $6,000,000 |
Date of birth | 1957-02-16 (67 years old) |
Place of birth | Landstuhl Regional Medical Center |
Nationality | United States of America |
Curiosities and Trademarks | Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge on Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987) |
Spouse | Stephanie Cozart Burton - (3 OctoberΒ 1992 - present)Β (1 child) |
Gender | Male |
Height | 5 ft 7 in (1.702 m) |
Social Media | βοΈ Wikipedia βοΈ IMDb |
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What Movie Awards did LeVar Burton win?
Oscar |
Golden Globe |
Golder Raspberry |
BAFTA |
Other |
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0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 |
LeVar Burton awards
Award Name | State | Movie / Series Name | Year |
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Image Award - Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture | Winner | The Hunter | 1980 |
Primetime Emmy - Outstanding Children's Program | Nominee | Reading Rainbow | 1996 |
Daytime Emmy - Outstanding Children's Series | Winner | Reading Rainbow | 2007 |
Daytime Emmy - Outstanding Performer in a Children's Series | Winner | Reading Rainbow | 2002 |
Daytime Emmy - Outstanding Children's Series | Nominee | Reading Rainbow | 1999 |
Daytime Emmy - Outstanding Children's Series | Winner | Reading Rainbow | 1998 |
Daytime Emmy - Outstanding Children's Series | Winner | Reading Rainbow | 1997 |
Daytime Emmy - Outstanding Children's Series | Winner | Reading Rainbow | 1996 |
Daytime Emmy - Outstanding Performer in a Children's Series | Nominee | Reading Rainbow | 1995 |
Daytime Emmy - Outstanding Children's Series | Winner | Reading Rainbow | 1993 |
Daytime Emmy - Outstanding Children's Series | Winner | Reading Rainbow | 1990 |
Daytime Emmy - Outstanding Performer in Children's Programming | Nominee | Reading Rainbow | 1987 |
Daytime Emmy - Outstanding Performer in Children's Programming | Nominee | Reading Rainbow | 1986 |
Image Award - Outstanding Performance in a Youth/Children's Series/Special | Nominee | Reading Rainbow | 2005 |
Image Award - Outstanding Performance in a Youth/Children's Series or Special | Winner | Reading Rainbow | 2003 |
BTVA Television Voice Acting Award - Best Vocal Ensemble in a New Television Series | Nominee | Transformers: Rescue Bots | 2013 |
LeVar Burton roles
Movie / Series | Role |
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Star Trek: Generations | Geordi |
Star Trek: First Contact | Geordi (as Levar Burton) |
Star Trek: Nemesis | Geordi La Forge |
Star Trek: Insurrection | Geordi La Forge (as Levar Burton) |
Looking for Mr. Goodbar | Cap Jackson |
Ali | Martin Luther King, Jr. |
The Hunter | Tommy Price |
Batman: The Animated Series | Hatter Hentchman / ... 1 episode, 1993 |
Star Trek: The Next Generation | Director |
Star Trek: The Next Generation | Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge / ... 176 episodes, 1987-1994 |
Enterprise | Director |
Community | LeVar Burton 2 episodes, 2011-2014 |
Nancy Drew | Barclay 1 episode, 2021 |
Family Guy | Self / ... 2 episodes, 2005-2009 |
JAG | Director |
Christy | Daniel Scott 7 episodes, 1995 |
Reading Rainbow | Self - Host 152 episodes, 1983-2015 |
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine | Director |
Transformers: Rescue Bots | Doc Greene / ... 65 episodes, 2011-2016 |
Murder, She Wrote | Reporter Dave Robinson 1 episode, 1987 |
Las Vegas | Director |
Becker | Mr. Haller 1 episode, 2000 |
Gargoyles | Anansi / ... 1 episode, 1996 |
The Love Boat | Darnell Hall 1 episode, 1984 |
The Eric Andre Show | Self 1 episode, 2020 |
Boomtown | Marvin Lloyd 1 episode, 2003 |
The Talk | Self - Guest / ... 3 episodes, 2012-2016 |
Miles from Tomorrowland | Dr. Consilium 3 episodes, 2016-2017 |
NCIS: New Orleans | Director |
NCIS: New Orleans | Rufus Nero 1 episode, 2019 |
Watch What Happens: Live | Self - Guest 1 episode, 2012 |
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon | Self - Guest 1 episode, 2012 |
Perception | Director |
Perception | Paul Haley 35 episodes, 2012-2015 |
CBS News Sunday Morning | Self - Guest 1 episode, 2021 |
Fantasy Island | Edward Ross, Jr. 1 episode, 1983 |
Trapper John, M.D. | Luther Peacock 1 episode, 1982 |
The Big Bang Theory | LeVar Burton 3 episodes, 2011-2014 |
Face Off | Self - Guest Judge 1 episode, 2012 |
Bronzeville | Alderman Jackson Mayfield 1 episode, 2021 |
Late Night with Conan O'Brien | Self - Guest 1 episode, 1997 |
LeVar Burton's Movie/Shows Salary
Movie / Series | Salary |
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Star Trek: The Next GenerationΒ (1987) | $100,000 per episode |
LeVar Burton's Quotes
- I get most of my news updates from electronic and social media.
- If we marry educational technology with quality, enriching content, that's a circle of win.
- There would be no Star Trek unless there were transporter malfunctions.
- As long as we are engaged in storytelling that moves the culture forward, it doesn't matter what format it is.
- Because storytelling, and visual storytelling, was put in the hands of everybody, and we have all now become storytellers.
Interesting Facts about LeVar Burton
- Has one daughter: Michaela Burton with his wife Stephanie Cozart Burton.
- Attended and graduated from Christian Brothers High School in Sacramento, California in 1974.
- LeVar Burton's father, Levardis Robert Burton Senior, was a United States Army NCO from 1954 to 1976. Levardis Burton retired in the rank of Sergeant First Class, just as his son's acting career was beginning to gain notoriety.
- As of November 2003, he holds the record for the most number of Star Trek episodes directed by a Star Trek actor. He has directed more than two-dozen episodes for every one of the four "modern era" Trek series.
- While co-starring in Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987), he was also continuing his role as host of Reading Rainbow (1983).
- His character Geordi La Forge on Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987) was named after George La Forge, a Star Trek fan who died from muscular dystrophy.
- Is a strong supporter of literacy in children.
- On Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987), his character's parents were played by two of his Roots (1977) co-stars: Ben Vereen played his father on "Star Trek TNG" and his grandson in Roots (1977) and Madge Sinclair played his character's wife in Roots (1977) and his mother on "Star Trek TNG".
- At age 13, he entered a Catholic seminary to study for the priesthood.
- In the original Next Generation script, Burton's character, Geordi LaForge, was going to be gay.
- Attended and graduated from the University of Southern California School of Theatre.
- Met his wife, Stephanie Cozart Burton, during the filming of Roots: The Gift (1988). They were married on the same day as Barack Obama and Michelle Obama (October 3, 1992).
- Has played Madge Sinclair's son in four different productions: Almos' a Man (1976), One in a Million: The Ron LeFlore Story (1978), Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones (1980) and Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987). He also played her character's husband in Roots (1977), though by that time the role of the older Kunta Kinte had been assumed by John Amos.
- Received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7000 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on November 15, 1990.
- His daughter, Mica Burton, will graduate from the University of Michigan in 2016.
- His mother, Erma Gene (Christian), was a social worker, administrator and English teacher.
- He was Kevin Pollak's first guest on Kevin Pollak's Chat Show (2009).
- Three years before taking on the role of blind helmsman/engineer Geordi La Forge on Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987), he played a blind passenger on The Love Boat (1977), in the episode segment "Love Is Blind".
- Named Ralph Nelson's Lilies of the Field (1963) with Sidney Poitier as his favorite film for the American Film Institute.
- Is a regular guest as himself on The Big Bang Theory (2007).
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