Stephen Root

Known for ActingBorn 1951-11-17 (age 74)Sarasota, Florida, USA

Stephen Root (born November 17, 1951) is an American actor and voice actor. Known for his extensive character actor roles in film and television, he gained attention for his roles as Jimmy James on the NBC sitcom NewsRadio (1995–1999), as Milton Waddams in the comedy film Office Space (1999), and voiced Bill Dauterive and Buck Strickland on the animated series King of the Hill (1997–2010, 2025–present).[1] 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), Bicentennial Man (1999), Dodgeball (2004), Idiocracy (2006), Cedar Rapids (2011), Selma (2014), Trumbo (2015), Get Out (2017), and On the Basis of Sex (2018), as well as his voice roles in Ice Age (2002) and Finding Nemo (2003). On television, he played supporting roles in Star Trek: The Next Generation (1991), True Blood (2008–2009), Boardwalk Empire (2012–2013), Fargo (2014), The Man in the High Castle (2016–2019), Perry Mason (2020), and Succession (2021–2023). He has received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series, in 2019 for the role of manipulative hitman handler Monroe Fuches in the HBO dark comedy crime series Barry (2018–2023) and in 2026 for the role of fisherman and outspoken superstitious Wyck Crawford in the Apple TV comedy horror series Widow's Bay (2026–present), which he won. Description above from the Wikipedia article Stephen Root, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.Read more

Movies & web series

Gut Feeling

Regular Show: The Lost Tapes

13 Scarier Movie Moments

Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look

Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake

Rick and Morty

Amphibia

Gravity Falls

Bee and PuppyCat

BoJack Horseman

Adventure Time

Unscripted

Star vs. the Forces of Evil

Succession

Young Justice

Malcolm in the Middle

Fargo

The Legend of Vox Machina

Adventure Time: Distant Lands

Teen Titans

Bee and PuppyCat

Christy

The Legend of Korra

Brooklyn Nine-Nine

Widow's Bay

The West Wing

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Justice League

Courage the Cowardly Dog

The Newsroom

Fringe

Scott Pilgrim Takes Off

Seinfeld

Boardwalk Empire

Mike Judge's Beavis and Butt-Head

The Torkelsons

Barry

Justified

From the Earth to the Moon

DuckTales

Masters of the Universe: Revolution

ThunderCats

No Country for Old Men

Resident Alien

The Big Bang Theory

Solar Opposites

Boston Legal

Phineas and Ferb