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LeVar Burton , is an actor and director who first came to prominence playing Kunta Kinte in the 1977 award winning television miniseries , based on the novel by Alex Haley (see 1977 in television).

Burton is a graduate of University of Southern California's School of Theatre. He has a daughter, Michaela, who was born in 1994.

Burton played the role of Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge in the television series and the series' movies. He has directed numerous episodes of the series, as well as episodes of (1983 – 2005) on PBS, which extols the virtues of literacy. He also played the voice of a character named Kwame in the cartoon series , he played Martin Luther King, Jr..

Currently residing in California, he and his wife Stephanie have worked to raise the awareness of infertility.