
Stephen Root
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.
119
Films
157
TV Shows
Known For
276 Credits
The Simpsons
as Bildorf (voice)
1989

Family Guy
as Professor O'Callaghan (voice)
1999

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
as Michael Kirkwood
2000

The Wrecking Crew
as Detective Rennert
2026

American Dad!
as Dick (voice)
2005

American Dad!
as Dick / Dentist's Father (voice)
2005

24
as Bill Prady
2001

Seinfeld
as Mr. Lager
1989

Rick and Morty
as Gromflomite General (voice)
2013

Adventure Time
as Martin (voice)
2010

The Good Wife
as Judge Murphy Wicks
2009

Frasier
as Harbin
1993