Stephen Root

Stephen Root

1951-11-17
Sarasota, Florida, USA

Biography

Stephen Root (born November 17, 1951) is an American actor. He has starred as Jimmy James on the NBC sitcom NewsRadio (1995–1999), as Milton Waddams in the film Office Space (1999), and voiced Bill Dauterive and Buck Strickland on the animated series King of the Hill (1997–2010, 2025–present). Root has appeared in numerous Coen brothers films, including O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), The Ladykillers (2004), No Country for Old Men (2007), The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018), and The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021). Other notable film roles include Dave (1993), Dodgeball (2004), Idiocracy (2006), Cedar Rapids (2011), Selma (2014), Trumbo (2015), Get Out (2017), and On the Basis of Sex (2018). His television roles have included Capt. K'Vada in the Star Trek: The Next Generation two-part episode "Unification" (1991) and Hawthorne Abendsen in seasons 2–4 of the series The Man in the High Castle. He has supporting roles in a variety of HBO series, including Boardwalk Empire, True Blood, Perry Mason, and Succession. He starred as Monroe Fuches in the HBO dark comedy series Barry, for which he was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series in 2019. Description above from the Wikipedia article Stephen Root, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting

Playdate
6.163
Heads of State
6.857
Finding Nemo
7.8
Ice Age
7.4
No Country for Old ...
7.947
Ghost
7.227
Bicentennial Man
7.269
Get Out
7.621
O Brother, Where Art ...
7.317
Idiocracy
6.361
Rango
6.885
Ice Age: The ...
6.717
Hello, My Name Is ...
6.381
Surviving Christmas
5.714
Dog Man
7.625
Drillbit Taylor
5.823
Three Christs
6.632
Golden Years
5.702
The Empty Man
6.175
Superman: Unbound
6.626
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