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.
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Personal info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1951-11-17
Place of birth
Sarasota, Florida, USA
Images
Cast
Finding Nemo
2003
7.82
Ghost
1990
7.23
Ice Age
2002
7.37
Office Space
1999
7.37
Just Friends
2005
6.21
Bicentennial Man
1999
7.30
The Sissy Duckling
1999
4.67
Leatherheads
2008
5.90
RoboCop 3
1993
4.90
Dave
1993
6.65
Golden Years
1991
5.71
Krippendorf's Tribe
1998
4.56
No Country for Old Men
2007
7.95
The Tragedy of Macbeth
2021
6.90
Mad Money
2008
6.46
DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story
2004
6.36
Jersey Girl
2004
6.18
The Fox and the Hound 2
2006
6.03
Over Her Dead Body
2008
5.53
Queenpins
2021
6.52
Monkey Shines
1988
6.29
Have Dreams, Will Travel
2007
7.55
The Conspirator
2011
6.60
Tripping the Rift: The Movie
2008
5.24
Surviving Christmas
2004
5.72
Jay and Silent Bob Reboot
2019
5.67
Unthinkable
2010
6.80
Rango
2011
6.89
Everything Must Go
2011
6.16
The Soloist
2009
6.70
Red State
2011
6.06
The Country Bears
2002
4.74
Batman: Year One
2011
7.25
Bob Funk
2009
4.64
Raising Genius
2004
3.80
Imagine That
2009
6.00
Cedar Rapids
2011
5.93
Heads of State
2025
6.84
Squirly Town
2009
0.00
Son of Morning
2011
2.95
Looking for the Jackalope
2016
4.00
Big Miracle
2012
6.70
The Company You Keep
2012
6.17
Lousy Carter
2024
6.10
Gut Feeling
1999
0.00
The Monster Hunter
1999
4.80
Sweetwater
2013
6.10
Superman: Unbound
2013
6.62
Bad Milo!
2013
5.70
Bed & Breakfast
1991
5.10
Thelma
0.00
O.W.C.A. Files
2015
7.50
The Arrangement
2013
4.60
Extreme Justice
1993
4.70
Night of the Scarecrow
1995
4.86
steve.oedekerk.com
1997
0.00
Hello, My Name Is Doris
2015
6.38
Crocodile Dundee II
1988
5.87
7 Chinese Brothers
2015
5.34
Class of '61
1993
4.06
The Men Who Stare at Goats
2009
5.97
All the Way
2016
6.70
The Ladykillers
2004
6.13
Playdate
2025
6.02
Miles
2017
5.30
Cook-Off!
2017
5.17
Trumbo
2015
7.16
Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates
2016
6.05
Drillbit Taylor
2008
5.83
Finding Dory
2016
7.04
Black Rain
1989
6.60
Lennon or McCartney
2014
5.20
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
1992
5.62
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
2000
7.32
The Wrecking Crew
2026
6.85
Infinity Baby
2017
6.30
The Lone Ranger
2013
6.12
Get Out
2017
7.62
Ice Age: The Meltdown
2006
6.72
Selma
2014
7.38
Tom and Jerry & The Wizard of Oz
2011
6.26
Grind
2003
5.94
Life of the Party
2018
6.09
On the Basis of Sex
2018
7.34
Scooby-Doo! Camp Scare
2010
7.80
Idiocracy
2006
6.37
I Know That Voice
2014
7.13
V.I. Warshawski
1991
4.70
Seberg
2019
5.88
The Empty Man
2020
6.18
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
2018
7.13
Guilty by Suspicion
1991
6.47
The Lottery
1996
5.33
Gretchen
2006
5.50
Uncle Frank
2020
7.30
Four Good Days
2021
6.83
Kim Possible Movie: So the Drama
2005
6.93
Bombshell
2019
6.78
Three Christs
2017
6.62
Glock
2009
0.00
The Road to Galveston
1996
3.00
Happily
2021
5.80
13 Scarier Movie Moments
2009
9.00
J. Edgar
2011
6.23
Tom and Jerry: Back to Oz
2016
6.00
Home
2021
6.74
Paint
2023
5.50
To Leslie
2022
7.04
Spectral
2016
6.53
Stanley & Iris
1990
6.50
Dog Man
2025
7.50
Bye Bye Love
1995
5.90
Dead Letters
0.00
October
0.00
Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice
2026
0.00
Feels So Good
2013
5.10