Known For
Acting
Born
Nov 17, 1951
Place of Birth
Sarasota, Florida, USA
Credits
264 titles
Stephen Root
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
Filmography
The Long Haul
Regular Show: The Lost Tapes
Jampft (voice)
The Terror: Devil in Silver
Dr. Badger
Widow's Bay
Wyck Crawford
Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice
Chet
Strip Law
Glem Blorchman (voice)
The Wrecking Crew
Detective Rennert
Playdate
Gordon
Heads of State
Arthur Hammond
Dog Man
Grampa (voice)
StuGo
Dr. Rostrum (voice)
It's Florida, Man.
Title Narrator (voice)
Lousy Carter
Analyst
Masters of the Universe: Revolution
Cringer (voice)
Scott Pilgrim Takes Off
The Nanomachines (voice)
Beacon 23
Solomon Smythe
Krapopolis
Salt (voice)
Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake
Martin Mertens (voice)
Praise Petey
Petey's Father (voice)
Clone High
Mr. Big Corporation (voice)
Fired on Mars
Mark (voice)
Paint
Tony
Velma
Chief Cogburn / Merie Cogburn (voice)
To Leslie
Dutch
Bee and PuppyCat
Warlock G / Police Officer (voice)
Hamster & Gretel
Jeff Strawberry (voice)
Mike Judge's Beavis and Butt-Head
Gary (voice)
Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe
Jail Tattoo Artist (voice)
The Legend of Vox Machina
Professor Anders (voice)
We Baby Bears
Rexford / Zach / Rover (voice)
The Book of Boba Fett
Lortha Peel
The Tragedy of Macbeth
Porter
Blade Runner: Black Lotus
Police Chief Earl Grant (voice)
Queenpins
Agent Flannigan
Home
Father Browning
Masters of the Universe: Revelation
Cringer / Battle Cat (voice)
Four Good Days
Chris
Happily
Goodman
Resident Alien
Ed Vanderspeigle
Uncle Frank
Daddy Mac
The Mighty Ones
Bernard (voice)
The Empty Man
Arthur Parsons
Star Trek: Lower Decks
Gene Jakobowski (voice)
Adventure Time: Distant Lands
Mr. M / Bob / Additional Voices (voice)
Perry Mason
Maynard Barnes
Solar Opposites
Train Store Owner (voice)
Stars in the House
Self
Bombshell
Neil Mullin
Seberg
Walt Breckman
Jay and Silent Bob Reboot
Cockmando (voice)