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Levardis Robert Martyn "LeVar" Burton, Jr. is a German-born American actor, voice actor, director, author, and television host. For Disney, he voiced Anansi in Gargoyles, Dr. Consilium in the Disney Junior series Miles from Tomorrowland, and played Paul Haley in the ABC Studios TV show Perception. He also directed the Disney Channel Original Movie Smart House.

Burton was born in Landstuhl, West Germany. His mother, Erma Gene (née Christian), was a social worker, administrator, and educator, while his father and namesake was a photographer for the U.S. Army Signal Corps stationed at Landstuhl at the time of his son's birth. Burton and his two sisters were raised by his mother in Sacramento, California. As a teen, Burton, who was raised Catholic, entered St. Pius X Minor Seminary in Galt, California, intending to become a priest. At age 17, questioning the Catholic faith, Burton changed his vocation to acting.

He is best known for being the host of the PBS children's television show Reading Rainbow, as well as playing Kunta Kinte in the 1977 ABC miniseries Roots, Geordi La Forge in Star Trek: The Next Generation and its spin-off feature films, and for voicing Kwame in Captain Planet and the Planeteers. He has also directed episodes for television shows, such as Charmed, JAG, Las Vegas, NCIS: New Orleans, NCIS: Hawaii, and various Star Trek spinoffs.

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