![LeVar Burton on X: "#ROOTS was my first professional audition. I was a 19 year old Theater major, @USC when I played Kunta Kinte. https://t.co/waXLFZd14L" / X LeVar Burton on X: "#ROOTS was my first professional audition. I was a 19 year old Theater major, @USC when I played Kunta Kinte. https://t.co/waXLFZd14L" / X](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EsbzCehUYAYB7Fe.jpg)
LeVar Burton on X: "#ROOTS was my first professional audition. I was a 19 year old Theater major, @USC when I played Kunta Kinte. https://t.co/waXLFZd14L" / X
![cliffski on X: "DID YOU KNOW? that levar burton, who played kunta kinte in the slavery miniseries 'roots' also played geordie in star trek: tng? https://t.co/jxfYlNYEWf" / X cliffski on X: "DID YOU KNOW? that levar burton, who played kunta kinte in the slavery miniseries 'roots' also played geordie in star trek: tng? https://t.co/jxfYlNYEWf" / X](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D47NvgaWkAUl2c5.png)
cliffski on X: "DID YOU KNOW? that levar burton, who played kunta kinte in the slavery miniseries 'roots' also played geordie in star trek: tng? https://t.co/jxfYlNYEWf" / X
![Levar Burton, who played Kunta Kinte in the movie "Roots" has a tattoo that can be read as either Levar or Kunta, depending on how you look at it. : r/interestingasfuck Levar Burton, who played Kunta Kinte in the movie "Roots" has a tattoo that can be read as either Levar or Kunta, depending on how you look at it. : r/interestingasfuck](https://preview.redd.it/mu3x7gu5njd41.jpg?auto=webp&s=40fdb57ef85f81f786736d8df0a12151a026af7a)
Levar Burton, who played Kunta Kinte in the movie "Roots" has a tattoo that can be read as either Levar or Kunta, depending on how you look at it. : r/interestingasfuck
![In Roots (1977), LeVar Burton plays Kunta Kinte, Madge Sinclair plays his wife Bell, and Ben Vereen plays his grandson Chicken George. In the Star Trek: TNG episode "Interface" (1993), LeVar Burton In Roots (1977), LeVar Burton plays Kunta Kinte, Madge Sinclair plays his wife Bell, and Ben Vereen plays his grandson Chicken George. In the Star Trek: TNG episode "Interface" (1993), LeVar Burton](https://preview.redd.it/em9jvhh5gc561.jpg?width=868&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1fda1f875e3de8bdd665c0fc5851b5c3ccdb1a13)