
Stephen Root
Known for department: Acting
Birthday: 1951-11-17
Place of birth: 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

Finding Nemo
2003Bubbles (voice)
Ghost
1990Police Sgt.
Ice Age
2002Frank / Start (voice)
Office Space
1999Milton Waddams
Just Friends
2005KC
Bicentennial Man
1999Dennis Mansky
The Sissy Duckling
1999Big Ducky (voice)
Leatherheads
2008Suds
RoboCop 3
1993Coontz
Dave
1993Don Durenberger
Golden Years
1991Major Moreland
Krippendorf's Tribe
1998Gerald Adams
No Country for Old Men
2007Man Who Hires Wells
The Tragedy of Macbeth
2021Porter
Mad Money
2008Glover
DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story
2004Gordon
Jersey Girl
2004Greenie
The Fox and the Hound 2
2006Talent Scout (voice)
Over Her Dead Body
2008Sculptor