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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1951-11-17 (73 years old)

Place of Birth

Sarasota, Florida, USA

Stephen Root

Biography:

Stephen Root (born November 17, 1951) is an American actor. He has starred as Jimmy James on the NBC sitcom NewsRadio, 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).

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), The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021). Other notable film roles include in 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), 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 notably starred as Monroe Fuches / The Raven on the HBO dark comedy series Barry (2018–2023), for which he was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series in 2019.

Known For

Acting

2025

Dog Man as Grampa (voice)

2024

Lousy Carter as Analyst
It's Florida, Man. as Title Narrator

2023

Paint as Tony
Fired on Mars as Mark (voice)
Clone High as Mr. Big Corporation (voice)
Adventure Time: Fionna & Cake as Martin Mertens (voice)
Beacon 23 as Solomon Smythe
Scott Pilgrim Takes Off as The Nanomachines (voice)
Velma as Chief Cogburn / Merie Cogburn (voice)
Velma as Merie Cogburn (voice)
Praise Petey as Petey's Father (voice)
Velma as Chief Cogburn (voice)

2022

Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe as Jail Tattoo Artist (voice)
To Leslie as Dutch
The Legend of Vox Machina as Professor Anders (voice)
We Baby Bears as Rexford / Zach / Rover (voice)
We Baby Bears as Zach / Bread Monster (voice)
Hamster & Gretel as Jeff Strawberry (voice)
We Baby Bears as Rexford / Trees / Video Person (voice)
Bee and PuppyCat: Lazy in Space as Warlock G (voice)
Bee and PuppyCat: Lazy in Space as Warlock G / Mr. Assam (voice)
Bee and PuppyCat: Lazy in Space as Warlock G / Police Officer (voice)

2021

Queenpins as Agent Flannigan
Happily as Goodman
Home as Father Browning
Masters of the Universe: Revelation as Cringer / Battle Cat (voice)
INVINCIBLE as Brandyworth (voice)
The Book of Boba Fett as Lortha Peel
Blade Runner: Black Lotus as Police Chief Earl Grant (voice)

2020

The Empty Man as Arthur Parsons
Uncle Frank as Daddy Mac
The Mighty Ones as Bernard (voice)
Adventure Time: Distant Lands as Mr. M / Bob (voice)
Perry Mason as Maynard Barnes
Star Trek: Lower Decks as Gene Jakobowski (voice)

2019

Jay and Silent Bob Reboot as Cockmando (voice)
Seberg as Walt Breckman
Bombshell as Neil Mullin
Amphibia as Mayor Toadstool (voice)
Lights Out with David Spade as Self - Panelist

2018

Life of the Party as Mike Cook
On the Basis of Sex as Professor Brown
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs as Teller (segment "Near Algodones")
Summer Camp Island as Dean Stuart / Additional Voices (voice)
Barry as Monroe Fuches
Succession as Ron Petkus
Dallas & Robo as Uncle Danny
Summer Camp Island as Stuart (voice)
Summer Camp Island as Additional Voices (voice)
Summer Camp Island as Prime Monister (voice)
The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants as Mr. Fyde / Avacadwoe / Hush Muffleman (voice)

2017

Miles as Ron Walton
Cook-Off! as Morty Van Rookle
Infinity Baby as Fenton
Get Out as Jim Hudson
Three Christs as Dr. Rogers
DuckTales as J.W. Guidebook (voice)

2016

Looking for the Jackalope as The Jackalope (voice)
All the Way as J. Edgar Hoover
Finding Dory as Bubbles (voice)
Tom and Jerry: Back to Oz as Uncle Henry (voice)
Spectral as Dr. Mindala
Idiotsitter as Ken Russel
Angie Tribeca as Mortimer Begoyle

2015

Phineas and Ferb: The O.W.C.A. Files as Floyd / Additional Voices (voice)
Trumbo as Hymie King
The Man in the High Castle as Hawthorne Abendsen
Con Man as Pascal

2014

Selma as Col. Al Lingo
Bee and PuppyCat as Farmer (voice)
Bee and PuppyCat as Warlock G / Police Officer (voice)
Bee and PuppyCat as Warlock G / Mr. Assam (voice)
Bee and PuppyCat as Warlock G (voice)
BoJack Horseman as Jeremiah Whitewhale (voice)

2013

Sweetwater as Hugh
Superman: Unbound as Zor-El (voice)
Bad Milo! as Roger
The Arrangement as Avery Boomer
The Lone Ranger as Habberman
Masters of Sex as Harvey Toplin
Brooklyn Nine-Nine as Lynn Boyle

2012

Big Miracle as Governor Haskell
The Company You Keep as Billy Cusimano
Gravity Falls as Bud Gleeful (voice)
DreamWorks Dragons as Mildew (voice)
Veep as Judge Walsh
The Newsroom as General Stomtonovich
Gravity Falls as Bud Gleeful / Additional Voices (voice)

2011

The Conspirator as John Lloyd
Rango as Doc / Merrimack / Mr. Snuggles (voice)
Red State as Sherrif Wynan
Batman: Year One as Brendon (voice)
Cedar Rapids as Bill Krogstad
Son of Morning as Senator Larder
Tom and Jerry & The Wizard of Oz as Uncle Henry / Crows (voice)
J. Edgar as Arthur Koehler
Workaholics as Carty
ThunderCats as Hattanzo the Drifter (voice)

2010

Unthinkable as Charles Thompson
Scooby-Doo! Camp Scare as Burt (voice)
Young Justice as Jack Haly (voice)
Adventure Time as Martin (voice)
Justified as Mike Reardon
Louie as Dr. Hepa
Boardwalk Empire as Gaston Means
The Defenders as Judge Taylor
Raising Hope as Cap Collins

2009

The Soloist as Curt Reynolds
Bob Funk as Steve
Imagine That as Fred Franklin
Squirly Town as Lance (voice)
Glock as Remington
The Good Wife as Judge Murphy Wicks

2008

Leatherheads as Suds
Mad Money as Glover
Over Her Dead Body as Sculptor
Drillbit Taylor as Principal Doppler
True Blood as Eddie
Childrens Hospital as Hank Maestro
Random! Cartoons as Lance (voice)
Fringe as Raymond
Batman: The Brave and the Bold as Woozy Winks (voice)
Batman: The Brave and the Bold as Penguin / Planet Master (voice)
Batman: The Brave and the Bold as Penguin / Carnival Barker (voice)
Batman: The Brave and the Bold as Killer Croc / Penguin (voice)

2007

No Country for Old Men as Man Who Hires Wells
Have Dreams, Will Travel as Sheriff Brock
Californication as Ricardo Collini
Pushing Daisies as Dwight Dixon
Phineas and Ferb as Floyd (voice)
Head Case as Pat Jennings
The Sarah Silverman Program. as Johnny Forrealz

2006

The Fox and the Hound 2 as Talent Scout (voice)
Ice Age: The Meltdown as Aardvark Dad (voice)
Idiocracy as Judge Hector "The Hangman" (uncredited)
Gretchen as Herb
The Path to 9/11 as Richard Clarke

2005

Kim Possible Movie: So the Drama as Cowboy Gambler (voice; uncredited)
American Dad! as Dick (voice)
Unscripted as Self
American Dad! as Dick / Dentist's Father (voice)

2004

Jersey Girl as Greenie
Surviving Christmas as Dr. Freeman
Raising Genius as Dwight Nestor
The Ladykillers as Fernand Gudge
Tripping the Rift as Chode (voice)
Boston Legal as Ethan Melman

2003

Finding Nemo as Bubbles (voice)
Grind as Cameron
Teen Titans as Val Yor (voice)

2002

Ice Age as Frank / Start (voice)
The Country Bears as Zeb Zoober (voice)
Kim Possible as Pop-Pop Porter (voice)
Kim Possible as Texan (voice)
Kim Possible as Chester Yapsby (voice)
Kim Possible as Phillipe Bullion / Pop-Pop Porter (voice)
Kim Possible as Mr. Nevius (voice)
Kim Possible as Memphis (voice)

2001

According to Jim as Al Crannis
The Legend of Tarzan as Theodore 'Teddy' Roosevelt (voice)
Justice League as Cat Man (voice)
The Proud Family as Mr. Andrews (voice)

2000

O Brother, Where Art Thou? as Radio Station Man
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation as Michael Kirkwood
Ed as George MacPherson
Malcolm in the Middle as John Pratt
DAG as Senator Culpepper
Buzz Lightyear of Star Command as Sheriff / Sentry #2 (voice)

1999

Office Space as Milton Waddams
Bicentennial Man as Dennis Mansky
The Sissy Duckling as Big Ducky (voice)
Gut Feeling as Kane Cohen
The Monster Hunter as Mr. Crenshaw
Ladies Man as Gene
The West Wing as Bob Mayer

1998

Krippendorf's Tribe as Gerald Adams

1997

Just Shoot Me! as Dr. Drake Kelson
King of the Hill as Bill Dauterive (voice)

1996

The Lottery as Graham Dunbar
The Road to Galveston as Ed Kirkman
Superman: The Animated Series as Reverend Amos Howell / Unity (voice)
Pandora's Clock as Mark Hastings

1995

Bye Bye Love as Awakened Neighbor
VR.5 as F.A.A. Negotiator
Cybill as Phil Asher
NewsRadio as Jimmy James

1994

1993

RoboCop 3 as Coontz
Dave as Don Durenberger
Extreme Justice as Max Alvarez
Class of '61 as Secretary of War Edwin Stanton
Diagnosis: Murder as Charlie Lane
Frasier as Harbin

1992

The Golden Palace as Mr. Tucker

1991

Golden Years as Major Moreland
Bed & Breakfast as Randolph
V.I. Warshawski as Mickey
Guilty by Suspicion as RKO Guard
Home Improvement as Exterminator
The Torkelsons as Sheriff Bobby
Eerie, Indiana as Mr. Chaney
Golden Years as Major Moreland

1990

Ghost as Police Sgt.
Stanley & Iris as Mr. Hentley

1989

Black Rain as Berg
Seinfeld as Mr. Lager
Quantum Leap as John Tremaine Jr.
The Simpsons as Bildorf (voice)

1988

Monkey Shines as Dean Burbage
Crocodile Dundee II as DEA Agent (Toilet)

1987

1986

L.A. Law as Atty. Brandon McCafferty

1984

Night Court as Spirit of Death
Night Court as Mr. Willard

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Playdate as Gordon