Stephen Root

Acting · 3.8 popularity

Age

Movies

126

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Born: November 17, 1951
From: 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.

Works

126 films

Finding Nemo

20037.8

The Wrecking Crew

20267.1

Get Out

20177.6

Ice Age

20027.4

No Country for Old Men

20077.9

Heads of State

20256.8

Idiocracy

20066.4

Ghost

19907.2

Ice Age: The Meltdown

20066.7

Rango

20116.9

Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice

20266.7

Playdate

20256.1

Finding Dory

20167.0

Dog Man

20257.4

Just Friends

20056.2

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

20007.3

Office Space

19997.4

The Lone Ranger

20136.1

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

20187.1

Bicentennial Man

19997.3

DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story

20046.4

The Empty Man

20206.1

RoboCop 3

19934.9

Unthinkable

20106.8

The Tragedy of Macbeth

20216.9

Black Rain

19896.6

Bombshell

20196.8

The Ladykillers

20046.1

The Fox and the Hound 2

20066.0

Jersey Girl

20046.2

Drillbit Taylor

20085.8

Crocodile Dundee II

19885.9

J. Edgar

20116.2

Mad Money

20086.5

Spectral

20166.6

To Leslie

20227.0

Red State

20116.0

Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates

20166.0

Scooby-Doo! Camp Scare

20107.8

The Men Who Stare at Goats

20096.0

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

19925.6

Life of the Party

20186.1

Big Miracle

20126.7

Queenpins

20216.5

On the Basis of Sex

20187.3

Imagine That

20096.0

The Soloist

20096.7

Kim Possible Movie: So the Drama

20056.9

Tom and Jerry & The Wizard of Oz

20116.3

Dave

19936.7

The Company You Keep

20126.2

Selma

20147.4

Guilty by Suspicion

19916.5

Jay and Silent Bob Reboot

20195.7

Tom and Jerry: Back to Oz

20166.1

Trumbo

20157.2

Batman: Year One

20117.2

All the Way

20166.6

Cedar Rapids

20115.9

Superman: Unbound

20136.6

Wake Up, Ron Burgundy: The Lost Movie

20046.0

Uncle Frank

20207.3

Cook-Off!

20175.2

Leatherheads

20085.9

Bob Funk

20094.6

Monkey Shines

19886.3

Surviving Christmas

20045.7

The Conspirator

20116.6

Sweetwater

20136.1

Over Her Dead Body

20085.5

Paint

20235.3

Three Christs

20176.7

Dr. Dolittle: Million Dollar Mutts

20095.5

Hello, My Name Is Doris

20156.3

Four Good Days

20216.8

Grind

20036.0

Stanley & Iris

19906.5

The Country Bears

20024.8

Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe

20226.9

Bad Milo!

20135.7

Seberg

20195.9

Tripping the Rift: The Movie

20085.2

Everything Must Go

20116.2

The Girlfriend

2026

V.I. Warshawski

19914.8

Krippendorf's Tribe

19984.6

The Arrangement

20134.6

Bye Bye Love

19956.0

Home

20216.7

Happily

20215.8

I Know That Voice

20147.1

13 Scarier Movie Moments

20099.0

The Road to Galveston

19964.5

Unbearable Christmas

2026

Lousy Carter

20246.2

Bob's Best Friends

2026

O.W.C.A. Files

20157.5

Have Dreams, Will Travel

20077.6

Extreme Justice

19935.0

Lennon or McCartney

20145.3

In the Line of Duty: Hunt for Justice

19954.8

The Sissy Duckling

19995.1

The Long Haul

2026

steve.oedekerk.com

19975.5

Infinity Baby

20176.3

Raising Genius

20044.3

The Lottery

19966.0

Son of Morning

20113.0

A Woman Scorned: The Betty Broderick Story

19925.9

October

2026

Golden Years

19915.8

Glock

2009

Class of '61

19934.4

Night of the Scarecrow

19955.0

Black Widow Murders: The Blanche Taylor Moore Story

19937.4

The Monster Hunter

19995.0

Looking for the Jackalope

20164.0

Miles

20175.3

Squirly Town

2009

Her Final Fury: Betty Broderick, the Last Chapter

19946.3

The Making of 'King of the Hill'

2003

7 Chinese Brothers

20155.3

Bed & Breakfast

19915.8

Feels So Good

20135.1

Gretchen

20066.7

Gut Feeling

199910.0