Stephen Root

Stephen Root

Acting
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, 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.

TV shows starring Stephen Root

Tripping the Rift

Chode (voice)

6.4
2004 20 min Ended
Animation Comedy Sci-Fi & Fantasy

NewsRadio

Jimmy James

7.3
1995 Ended
Comedy

Barry

Monroe Fuches

7.9
2018 25 min Ended
Comedy Crime Drama

King of the Hill

Bill Dauterive (voice)

7.3
1997 22 min Canceled
Animation Comedy Family

Masters of the Universe: Revelation

Cringer / Battle Cat (voice)

6.5
2021 25 min Ended
Action & Adventure Sci-Fi & Fantasy Animation
8.0
2024 Ended
Animation Action & Adventure Sci-Fi & Fantasy