Stephen Root

Acting

1951-11-17 · 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.

Filmography

Theaters

The Long Haul

2026 · Movie

Regular Show: The Lost Tapes

2026 · Series

The Terror: Devil in Silver

2026 · Series

Widow's Bay

2026 · Series

Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice

2026 · Movie

Strip Law

2026 · Series

The Wrecking Crew

2026 · Movie

Playdate

2025 · Movie

Heads of State

2025 · Movie

Dog Man

2025 · Movie

StuGo

2025 · Series

It's Florida, Man.

2024 · Series

Lousy Carter

2024 · Movie

Masters of the Universe: Revolution

2024 · Series

Scott Pilgrim Takes Off

2023 · Series

Beacon 23

2023 · Series

Krapopolis

2023 · Series

Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake

2023 · Series

Praise Petey

2023 · Series

Clone High

2023 · Series

Fired on Mars

2023 · Series

Paint

2023 · Movie

Velma

2023 · Series

To Leslie

2022 · Movie

Bee and PuppyCat

2022 · Series

Hamster & Gretel

2022 · Series

Mike Judge's Beavis and Butt-Head

2022 · Series

Starting Now: the Making of Barry

2022 · Movie

Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe

2022 · Movie

The Legend of Vox Machina

2022 · Series

We Baby Bears

2022 · Series

The Book of Boba Fett

2021 · Series

The Tragedy of Macbeth

2021 · Movie

Blade Runner: Black Lotus

2021 · Series

Queenpins

2021 · Movie

Home

2021 · Movie

Masters of the Universe: Revelation

2021 · Series

Four Good Days

2021 · Movie

Happily

2021 · Movie

Resident Alien

2021 · Series

Uncle Frank

2020 · Movie

The Mighty Ones

2020 · Series

The Empty Man

2020 · Movie

Star Trek: Lower Decks

2020 · Series

Adventure Time: Distant Lands

2020 · Series

Perry Mason

2020 · Series

Solar Opposites

2020 · Series

Stars in the House

2020 · Series

Bombshell

2019 · Movie

Seberg

2019 · Movie

Jay and Silent Bob Reboot

2019 · Movie

Lights Out with David Spade

2019 · Series

Amphibia

2019 · Series

On the Basis of Sex

2018 · Movie

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

2018 · Movie

The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants

2018 · Series

Summer Camp Island

2018 · Series

Succession

2018 · Series

Dallas & Robo

2018 · Series

Life of the Party

2018 · Movie

Barry

2018 · Series

Cook-Off!

2017 · Movie

Three Christs

2017 · Movie

DuckTales

2017 · Series

Miles

2017 · Movie

Infinity Baby

2017 · Movie

Get Out

2017 · Movie

Spectral

2016 · Movie

Looking for the Jackalope

2016 · Movie

Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates

2016 · Movie

Tom and Jerry: Back to Oz

2016 · Movie

Finding Dory

2016 · Movie

All the Way

2016 · Movie

Angie Tribeca

2016 · Series

Idiotsitter

2016 · Series

Hello, My Name Is Doris

2015 · Movie

O.W.C.A. Files

2015 · Movie

Trumbo

2015 · Movie

Con Man

2015 · Series

7 Chinese Brothers

2015 · Movie

Star vs. the Forces of Evil

2015 · Series

The Man in the High Castle

2015 · Series

Selma

2014 · Movie

Lennon or McCartney

2014 · Movie

Bee and PuppyCat

2014 · Series

BoJack Horseman

2014 · Series

Fargo

2014 · Series

Late Night with Seth Meyers

2014 · Series

I Know That Voice

2014 · Movie

Rick and Morty

2013 · Series

Feels So Good

2013 · Movie

Sweetwater

2013 · Movie

Masters of Sex

2013 · Series

Brooklyn Nine-Nine

2013 · Series

Bad Milo!

2013 · Movie

The Lone Ranger

2013 · Movie

Superman: Unbound

2013 · Movie

The Arrangement

2013 · Movie

The Company You Keep

2012 · Movie

DreamWorks Dragons

2012 · Series

The Newsroom

2012 · Series

Gravity Falls

2012 · Series

Veep

2012 · Series

The Legend of Korra

2012 · Series

Big Miracle

2012 · Movie

J. Edgar

2011 · Movie

Batman: Year One

2011 · Movie

Red State

2011 · Movie

Tom and Jerry & The Wizard of Oz

2011 · Movie

ThunderCats

2011 · Series

Everything Must Go

2011 · Movie

The Conspirator

2011 · Movie

Workaholics

2011 · Series

Rango

2011 · Movie

Son of Morning

2011 · Movie

Cedar Rapids

2011 · Movie

Bob's Burgers

2011 · Series

Young Justice

2010 · Series

The Defenders

2010 · Series

Raising Hope

2010 · Series

Boardwalk Empire

2010 · Series

Scooby-Doo! Camp Scare

2010 · Movie

Louie

2010 · Series

Hot in Cleveland

2010 · Series

Unthinkable

2010 · Movie

Adventure Time

2010 · Series

Justified

2010 · Series

Glock

2009 · Movie

The Men Who Stare at Goats

2009 · Movie

13 Scarier Movie Moments

2009 · Movie

The Good Wife

2009 · Series

Glenn Martin, DDS

2009 · Series

Squirly Town

2009 · Movie

Imagine That

2009 · Movie

The Soloist

2009 · Movie

Dr. Dolittle: Million Dollar Mutts

2009 · Movie

Bob Funk

2009 · Movie

Childrens Hospital

2008 · Series

Random! Cartoons

2008 · Series

Batman: The Brave and the Bold

2008 · Series

Fringe

2008 · Series

True Blood

2008 · Series

Tripping the Rift: The Movie

2008 · Movie

Leatherheads

2008 · Movie

Drillbit Taylor

2008 · Movie

Over Her Dead Body

2008 · Movie

Mad Money

2008 · Movie

No Country for Old Men

2007 · Movie

Pushing Daisies

2007 · Series

The Big Bang Theory

2007 · Series

Phineas and Ferb

2007 · Series

Californication

2007 · Series

Have Dreams, Will Travel

2007 · Movie

Head Case

2007 · Series

The Sarah Silverman Program

2007 · Series

The Fox and the Hound 2

2006 · Movie

The Path to 9/11

2006 · Series

Idiocracy

2006 · Movie

Gretchen

2006 · Movie

Ice Age: The Meltdown

2006 · Movie

The X's

2005 · Series

Just Friends

2005 · Movie

Kim Possible Movie: So the Drama

2005 · Movie

American Dad!

2005 · Series

Unscripted

2005 · Series

Wake Up, Ron Burgundy: The Lost Movie

2004 · Movie

Boston Legal

2004 · Series

Surviving Christmas

2004 · Movie

DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story

2004 · Movie

The Ladykillers

2004 · Movie

Jersey Girl

2004 · Movie

Raising Genius

2004 · Movie

Tripping the Rift

2004 · Series

Grind

2003 · Movie

Teen Titans

2003 · Series

The Making of 'King of the Hill'

2003 · Movie

Finding Nemo

2003 · Movie

The Country Bears

2002 · Movie

Kim Possible

2002 · Series

Ice Age

2002 · Movie

Justice League

2001 · Series

According to Jim

2001 · Series

The Proud Family

2001 · Series

The Legend of Tarzan

2001 · Series

The Andy Dick Show

2001 · Series

Grounded for Life

2001 · Series

DAG

2000 · Series

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

2000 · Series

Buzz Lightyear of Star Command

2000 · Series

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

2000 · Movie

Malcolm in the Middle

2000 · Series

Bicentennial Man

1999 · Movie

Courage the Cowardly Dog

1999 · Series

The West Wing

1999 · Series

Ladies Man

1999 · Series

The Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot

1999 · Series

The Sissy Duckling

1999 · Movie

The Norm Show

1999 · Series

Office Space

1999 · Movie

Family Guy

1999 · Series

Gut Feeling

1999 · Movie

The Monster Hunter

1999 · Movie

From the Earth to the Moon

1998 · Series

Krippendorf's Tribe

1998 · Movie

steve.oedekerk.com

1997 · Movie

Just Shoot Me!

1997 · Series

King of the Hill

1997 · Series

Pandora's Clock

1996 · Series

The Lottery

1996 · Movie

Profiler

1996 · Series

Superman: The Animated Series

1996 · Series

The Road to Galveston

1996 · Movie

In the Line of Duty: Hunt for Justice

1995 · Movie

Night of the Scarecrow

1995 · Movie

NewsRadio

1995 · Series

Bye Bye Love

1995 · Movie

VR.5

1995 · Series

Cybill

1995 · Series

Her Final Fury: Betty Broderick, the Last Chapter

1994 · Movie

Chicago Hope

1994 · Series

Party of Five

1994 · Series

Christy

1994 · Series

Diagnosis: Murder

1993 · Series

Harts of the West

1993 · Series

Frasier

1993 · Series

Extreme Justice

1993 · Movie

Dave

1993 · Movie

Black Widow Murders: The Blanche Taylor Moore Story

1993 · Movie

Class of '61

1993 · Movie

RoboCop 3

1993 · Movie

The Golden Palace

1992 · Series

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

1992 · Movie

A Woman Scorned: The Betty Broderick Story

1992 · Movie

Civil Wars

1991 · Series

Bed & Breakfast

1991 · Movie

The Torkelsons

1991 · Series

Home Improvement

1991 · Series

Eerie, Indiana

1991 · Series

V.I. Warshawski

1991 · Movie

Golden Years

1991 · Series

Golden Years

1991 · Movie

Guilty by Suspicion

1991 · Movie

Ghost

1990 · Movie

Northern Exposure

1990 · Series

Blossom

1990 · Series

Stanley & Iris

1990 · Movie

The Simpsons

1989 · Series

Black Rain

1989 · Movie

Seinfeld

1989 · Series

Quantum Leap

1989 · Series

Murphy Brown

1988 · Series

Roseanne

1988 · Series

Monkey Shines

1988 · Movie

Crocodile Dundee II

1988 · Movie

Star Trek: The Next Generation

1987 · Series

Jake and the Fatman

1987 · Series

Wiseguy

1987 · Series

L.A. Law

1986 · Series

Night Court

1984 · Series

The Girlfriend

Movie

October

Movie

Bob's Best Friends

Movie

Unbearable Christmas

Movie