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).[2]
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.
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StephenRoot (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...
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of their jobs. It stars Ron Livingston, Jennifer Aniston, Gary Cole, StephenRoot, David Herman, Ajay Naidu, and Diedrich Bader. Office Space was filmed...
Dave's love interest Aubrey Plaza as Tatiana Darcy, Mike's love interest StephenRoot as Burton "Burt" Stangle, Mike & Dave's father Stephanie Faracy as Rosanne...
Hudson in the musical series Glee. Rosemont is married to fellow actor StephenRoot; the couple appeared on-screen together in a fourth-season episode of...
high school football star, voiced by StephenRoot, and named after series producer Jim Dauterive. StephenRoot used his background in Southern theatre...
her a job. Allison Janney, Marc Maron, Andre Royo, Owen Teague, and StephenRoot are featured in supporting roles. To Leslie premiered at South by Southwest...
AM news radio station. It had an ensemble cast featuring Dave Foley, StephenRoot, Andy Dick, Maura Tierney, Vicki Lewis, Joe Rogan, Khandi Alexander,...
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Insider.com. Hailu, Selome (April 20, 2022). "'Barry' Stars Henry Winkler, StephenRoot and Sarah Goldberg Talk Acting Strategies at Season 3 Premiere". Variety...
and refers to Howard as the guy who thinks he can speak Chinese. Dan (StephenRoot) is a senior member of staff at Zangen, who first appears in "The Locomotion...