LeVar Burton

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1957 age 0

   Born

2. 1977 age 20

   CreditLooking for Mr. Goodbar

3. 1980 age 23

   CreditGuyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones

4. 1988 age 31

   CreditRoots: The Gift

5. 1994 age 37

   CreditStar Trek Generations

6. 1996 age 39

   CreditStar Trek: First Contact

7. 1998 age 41

   CreditStar Trek: Insurrection

8. 1999 age 42

   CreditSmart Housedirector

9. 2001 age 44

   CreditAli

10. 2002 age 45

    CreditStar Trek: Nemesis

11. 2012 age 55

    CreditRise of the Zombies

• BSBrent Spiner14 titles
• JFJonathan Frakes14 titles
• PSPatrick Stewart13 titles
• MSMarina Sirtis13 titles
• MDMichael Dorn10 titles
• GMGates McFadden8 titles
• WGWhoopi Goldberg4 titles
• RBRick Berman4 titles
• JGJerry Goldsmith3 titles
• MBMajel Barrett3 titles

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  Photo:Super Festivals from Ft. Lauderdale, USACC BY 2.0

• I personally believe that education is the key to freedom. Actually, literacy is the key to freedom because you can educate yourself.

  LeVar Burton, CC BY-SA 4.0

• My life was changed forever. My first day as an actor, Cicely Tyson played my mother, Maya Angelou played my grandmother. I was 19, and they embraced me as a peer. They schooled me. They certainly taught me what it meant to be a professional, but they assumed that because I was there I belonged there, and they treated me as such. It was an extraordinary experience for a young person.

  LeVar Burton, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I wouldn’t want to be a young and emerging talent in today’s environment of the 24-hour news cycle and social media and a camera in everyone’s hand. I can’t imagine how much that adds to the burden of the journey.

  LeVar Burton, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I am a huge fan of science fiction! Throughout my life I have marveled at the powerful, even transformative nature of speculative storytelling. The influence science fiction storytelling is having in popular culture right now is amazing to behold, and as a genuine fan of the medium, I truly believe we are in a New Age of speculative fiction. There is a pleasing phenomenon developing in the genre recently: the worthy inclusion of voices of color, which are being paid much overdue attention. Why this is important should be self-evident. However, for those sitting way in the back, consider this: we continually create the world we occupy-in our imaginations first, and only afterwards do we make those visions manifest in this world. So it stands to reason that a healthy society is one that respects and honors the voices of ALL of its components. For too long, the voices and visions for our future have been provided, for the most part, by and from a culturally European (if not Eurocentric) p

  LeVar Burton, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Jaymee Goh, Darcie Little Badger, Indrapramit Das. These are voices that are sorely needed if we are to chart a course for humanity that does not result in the destructive practices of our past. The exploration of space and our eventual close encounters with other intelligent species will require us to leave our "colonizer" mentality behind and embrace an attitude of openness and humility we have to cultivate, let alone master. When a world leader advocates for the creation of a militaristic Space Force to exercise "dominance" in the heavens, we are moving further than ever from Gene Roddenberry's United Federation of Planets. Instead, our exploration into the unknown should cause us to examine who we are as sentient beings, and science fiction as a tool for social change makes for a most welcome companion on our journey.

  LeVar Burton, CC BY-SA 4.0