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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). Burton received 12 Daytime Emmy Awards and a Peabody Award as host and executive producer of Reading Rainbow. His other roles include Cap Jackson in Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977), Donald Lang in Dummy (1979), Tommy Price in The Hunter (1980), which earned him an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture, and Martin Luther King Jr. in Ali (2001). Burton received the Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album at the 42nd Annual Grammy Awards for his narration of the book The Autobiography of Martin Luther King Jr. In 1990, he was honored for his accomplishments in television with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. From 2017 until 2024, Burton created and hosted the podcast LeVar Burton Reads, often described as "Reading Rainbow for adults". In October 2024, Burton appeared as the host of the Trivial Pursuit television game show broadcast on The CW network and streaming online.
LeVar Burton
Thunderbolt (Modern)
for Thunderbolt (Modern) in Skylanders Adventures
Suggested by tildeheart
On an ordinary day, a boy named Jacob "Jake" Becker finds a strange stone pedestal on his way home from school, and upon touching it, it activates and whisks him away to a magical world beyond his imagination! Upon his arrival, Jake is found and taken in by an elderly mage named Master Eon, who tells him that he is the portal master prophesied to save both this world and his own from evil, and begins his training as he tries to find a way back home ║ Remake of a fancast for a hypothetical Skylanders animated series based on the scrapped animated show pitched to Moonscoop/Splash Entertainment in 2011. Professional voice actors only, no celebrities (unless they have done a significant amount of voiceover work and not just stuff for big budget projects), don't cast white VAs as characters of color (and please read the descriptions to see what castings I want for them), there are separate roles for 2000s/early 2010s time period accurate casting and modern-day casting so please sort your castings accordingly. Casting deceased/retired VAs in time-period accurate roles is fine provided that they were alive and active in the industry during that time period. For further story info see here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rW-kdnxPpoFzFNzbBX7h-gms2SERw3f3gtqd6_4aRL4/
