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LeVar Burton

Highest Rated:: 92% Star Trek - First Contact (1996)
Lowest Rated:: 38% Star Trek - Nemesis (2002)

Birthday:: Feb 16, 1957
Birthplace:: Landstuhl, West Germany
Bio:: African American actor LeVar Burton was a 19-year-old UCLA drama student when he was catapulted into international fame. On January 23, 1977, Burton made his professional debut as young Kunta Kinte, the protagonist of the classic TV miniseries Roots. He went on to give first-rate performances in…

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Highest Rated Movies

Filmography

Range of Movie T-meters: 38% - 92%

Number of Movies: 44

Box Office Since 2001: $101.2M

Year	Rating	Title	Credit	Box Office
2011		And They're Off...	Himself	--
2010		Reach for Me	Director Actor	--
2010		For Love of Liberty: The Story of America's Black Patriots	Actor	--
2009		Taken in Broad Daylight	Actor	--
2009		Superman/Batman: Public Enemies	Black Lightning	--
2006		The ACLU Freedom Files	Actor	--
2006		Reading Rainbow - How's That Made?	Actor	--
2006		Reading Rainbow - Farm Life	Actor	--
2004		The N Word	Actor	--
2004		The N-Word	Actor	--
2003		Poetry Corner	Actor	--
2003	60%	Blizzard	Director	--
2002	38%	Star Trek - Nemesis	Geordi LaForge	$43.1M
2001	67%	Ali	Martin Luther King Jr.	$58.2M
2000		Dancing in September	Actor	--
1999		Our Friend, Martin	Actor	--
1999		Smart House	Director	--
1998		Tiger Woods Story	Director	--
1998	56%	Star Trek - Insurrection	Lt. Cmdr. Geordi LaForge	--
1997	86%	Trekkies	Actor	--
1996	92%	Star Trek - First Contact	Lt. Cmdr. Geordi LaForge	--
1996		Yesterday's Target	Actor	--
1994		Parallel Lives	Dr. Franklin Carter	--
1994	48%	Star Trek Generations	Lt. Cmdr. Geordi LaForge	--
1993		Firestorm - 72 Hours in Oakland	Actor	--
1988		Roots: The Gift	Kunta Kinte	--
1986		The Midnight Hour	Vinnie Davis	--
1986		The Supernaturals	Pvt. Michael Osgood	--
1984		The Jesse Owens Story	Actor	--
1983		Wonderworks - Booker	Actor	--
1983		Reading Rainbow - Digging Up Dinosaurs	Actor	--
1981		Grambling's White Tiger	Actor	--
1981		Grambling's White Tiger	Actor	--
1980		Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones (The Mad Messiah)	Richard	--
1980	55%	The Hunter	Tommy Price	--
1979		Dummy	Donald Lang	--
1978		One in a Million: The Ron LeFlore Story (Man of Passion)	Ron LeFlore	--
1978		Battered	Andrew Sinclair	--
1978		Roots: One Year Later	Actor	--
1977	40%	Da uomo a uomo (Death Rides A Horse) (As Man to Man)	Actor	--
1977	75%	Looking for Mr. Goodbar	Cap Jackson	--
1976		Almos' a Man	Actor	--
		Battered	Actor	--
		Ghetto Child	Actor	--