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Stephen Root

Stephen Root

Acting
Born: 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.

Known For

257 Works
The Simpsons
8.0

The Simpsons

1989

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Family Guy
7.4

Family Guy

1999

tv

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
7.6

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

2000

tv

24
7.8

24

2001

tv

American Dad!
7.0

American Dad!

2005

tv

Fargo
8.3

Fargo

2014

tv

Rick and Morty
8.7

Rick and Morty

2013

tv

Seinfeld
8.3

Seinfeld

1989

tv

Fringe
8.1

Fringe

2008

tv

The Good Wife
7.6

The Good Wife

2009

tv

Malcolm in the Middle
8.5

Malcolm in the Middle

2000

tv

Brooklyn Nine-Nine
8.2

Brooklyn Nine-Nine

2013

tv