ACTOR

LeVar Burton

1957 - Today

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Levardis Robert Martyn Burton Jr. (born February 16, 1957) is an American actor, director, and television host. He played Geordi La Forge in Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994), Kunta Kinte in the ABC miniseries Roots (1977), and was the host of the PBS Kids educational television series Reading Rainbow for 23 years (1983–2006). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of LeVar Burton has received more than 7,388,095 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). LeVar Burton is the 4,839th most popular actor (down from 4,758th in 2019), the 4,711th most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,247th in 2019) and the 175th most popular German Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 7.4M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 47.42

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.00

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.65

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of LeVar Burtons by language

Over the past year LeVar Burton has had the most page views in the with 895,195 views, followed by German (65,048), and Spanish (18,824). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Simple English (156.16%), Malagasy (129.83%), and Egyptian Arabic (81.57%)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, LeVar Burton ranks 4,839 out of 13,578. Before him are Marília Pêra, Preity Zinta, Ulrich Matthes, Greg Germann, Lya Mara, and Haley Joel Osment. After him are Terry Bradshaw, Curly Howard, Kathy Burke, Jessalyn Gilsig, Krysten Ritter, and Curt Lowens.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1957, LeVar Burton ranks 289. Before him are Evangelos Venizelos, Peter Englund, Ingrid Auerswald, Kevin McHale, Alexandra Marinina, and Mario Van Peebles. After him are Vinny Appice, Nancy Cartwright, Mario Grech, Shlomo Mintz, Masaru Uchiyama, and Roberto Azevêdo.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, LeVar Burton ranks 4,711 out of 7,253. Before him are Werner Krämer (1940), Johann Faulhaber (1580), René Kollo (1937), Ulrich Matthes (1959), Uta Ranke-Heinemann (1927), and Annemarie Heinrich (1912). After him are Erik Ode (1910), Alfred Kelbassa (1925), Annegret Richter (1950), Theodor Blank (1905), Princess Ida of Saxe-Meiningen (1794), and Kristin Otto (1966).

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Among ACTORS In Germany

Among actors born in Germany, LeVar Burton ranks 175. Before him are Gisela Uhlen (1919), Jeri Ryan (1968), Reinhold Schünzel (1886), Ossi Oswalda (1897), Peter Gilmore (1931), and Ulrich Matthes (1959). After him are André Hennicke (1958), Hanns Kräly (1884), Werner Peters (1918), Hannelore Schroth (1922), Katja Riemann (1963), and Carl Ebert (1887).

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Television and Movie Roles

Star Trek: First Contact
Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge
The Borg, a relentless race of cyborgs, are on a direct course for Earth. Violating orders to stay away from the battle, Captain Picard and the crew of the newly-commissioned USS Enterprise E pursue the Borg back in time to prevent the invaders from changing Federation history and assimilating the galaxy.
Nov 22o 19967.293 / 10
Star Trek: Generations
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge
Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the Enterprise-D find themselves at odds with the renegade scientist Soran who is destroying entire star systems. Only one man can help Picard stop Soran's scheme...and he's been dead for seventy-eight years.
Nov 18o 19946.509 / 10
Star Trek: Nemesis
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge
En route to the honeymoon of William Riker to Deanna Troi on her home planet of Betazed, Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise receives word from Starfleet that a coup has resulted in the installation of a new Romulan political leader, Shinzon, who claims to seek peace with the human-backed United Federation of Planets. Once in enemy territory, the captain and his crew make a startling discovery: Shinzon is human, a slave from the Romulan sister planet of Remus, and has a secret, shocking relationship to Picard himself.
Dec 13o 20026.285 / 10