Stephen Root
Known For
Acting
Born
1951-11-17 in 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.
Most Known For
The Simpsons
as Bildorf (voice)
The Wrecking Crew
as Detective Rennert
Family Guy
as Professor O'Callaghan (voice)
American Dad!
as Dick (voice)
American Dad!
as Dick / Dentist's Father (voice)
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
as Michael Kirkwood
Rick and Morty
as Gromflomite General (voice)
Seinfeld
as Mr. Lager
24
as Bill Prady
Star Trek: The Next Generation
as Captain K'Vada
Adventure Time
as Martin (voice)
The West Wing
as Bob Mayer
The Good Wife
as Judge Murphy Wicks
Bob's Burgers
as Jackson (voice)
Frasier
as Harbin
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
as Lynn Boyle
King of the Hill
as Bill Dauterive (voice)
Fringe
as Raymond
The Big Bang Theory
as Dan
Phineas and Ferb
as Floyd (voice)