Stephen Root
Acting
Born November 17, 1951 · Sarasota, Florida, USA
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.
Films (121)
Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice
2026
The Wrecking Crew
2026
Playdate
2025
Heads of State
2025
Dog Man
2025
Lousy Carter
2024
Paint
2023
To Leslie
2022
Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe
2022
The Tragedy of Macbeth
2021
Queenpins
2021
Home
2021
Four Good Days
2021
Happily
2021
Uncle Frank
2020
The Empty Man
2020
Seberg
2019
Bombshell
2019
Jay and Silent Bob Reboot
2019
On the Basis of Sex
2018
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
2018
Life of the Party
2018
Cook-Off!
2017
Three Christs
2017
Miles
2017
Infinity Baby
2017
Get Out
2017
Spectral
2016
Looking for the Jackalope
2016
Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates
2016
Tom and Jerry: Back to Oz
2016
Finding Dory
2016
All the Way
2016
Hello, My Name Is Doris
2015
O.W.C.A. Files
2015
Trumbo
2015
7 Chinese Brothers
2015
Selma
2014
Lennon or McCartney
2014
I Know That Voice
2014
Feels So Good
2013
Sweetwater
2013
Bad Milo!
2013
The Lone Ranger
2013
Superman: Unbound
2013
The Arrangement
2013
The Company You Keep
2012
Big Miracle
2012
J. Edgar
2011
Batman: Year One
2011
Red State
2011
Tom and Jerry & The Wizard of Oz
2011
Everything Must Go
2011
The Conspirator
2011
Rango
2011
Son of Morning
2011
Cedar Rapids
2011
Scooby-Doo! Camp Scare
2010
Unthinkable
2010
Glock
2009
The Men Who Stare at Goats
2009
13 Scarier Movie Moments
2009
Squirly Town
2009
Imagine That
2009
The Soloist
2009
Dr. Dolittle: Million Dollar Mutts
2009
Bob Funk
2009
Tripping the Rift: The Movie
2008
Leatherheads
2008
Drillbit Taylor
2008
Over Her Dead Body
2008
Mad Money
2008
No Country for Old Men
2007
Have Dreams, Will Travel
2007
The Fox and the Hound 2
2006
Idiocracy
2006
Gretchen
2006
Ice Age: The Meltdown
2006
Just Friends
2005
Kim Possible Movie: So the Drama
2005
Wake Up, Ron Burgundy: The Lost Movie
2004
Surviving Christmas
2004
DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story
2004
Jersey Girl
2004
The Ladykillers
2004
Raising Genius
2004
Grind
2003
The Making of 'King of the Hill'
2003
Finding Nemo
2003
The Country Bears
2002
Ice Age
2002
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
2000
Bicentennial Man
1999
The Sissy Duckling
1999
Office Space
1999
Gut Feeling
1999
The Monster Hunter
1999
Krippendorf's Tribe
1998
steve.oedekerk.com
1997
The Lottery
1996
The Road to Galveston
1996
In the Line of Duty: Hunt for Justice
1995
Night of the Scarecrow
1995
Bye Bye Love
1995
Her Final Fury: Betty Broderick, the Last Chapter
1994
Extreme Justice
1993
Dave
1993
Black Widow Murders: The Blanche Taylor Moore Story
1993
Class of '61
1993
RoboCop 3
1993
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
1992
A Woman Scorned: The Betty Broderick Story
1992
Bed & Breakfast
1991
V.I. Warshawski
1991
Golden Years
1991
Guilty by Suspicion
1991
Ghost
1990
Stanley & Iris
1990
Black Rain
1989
Monkey Shines
1988
Crocodile Dundee II
1988