LeVar Burton

LeVar Burton is an actor, director, and author, best known as Geordi La Forge in Star Trek: The Next Generation, Kunta Kinte in the award-winning television miniseries Roots, the host of the long-running PBS children’s series Reading Rainbow, and as the voices of Doc Greene in Transformers: Rescue Bots, War Machine in The Superhero Squad, and Kwame in Captain Planet and the Planeteers. He has also directed a number of film and television projects, including episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager, and Star Trek: Enterprise.