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.
122 movies · 138 shows
The Long Haul
2026·0.0
Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice
2026·6.7
The Wrecking Crew
2026·7.1
Playdate
2025·6.1
Heads of State
2025·6.8
Dog Man
2025·7.4
Lousy Carter
2024·6.2
Paint
2023·5.3
To Leslie
2022·7.0
Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe
2022·6.9
The Tragedy of Macbeth
2021·6.9
Queenpins
2021·6.5
Home
2021·6.7
Four Good Days
2021·6.8
Happily
2021·5.8
Uncle Frank
2020·7.3
The Empty Man
2020·6.1
Seberg
2019·5.9
Bombshell
2019·6.8
Jay and Silent Bob Reboot
2019·5.7
On the Basis of Sex
2018·7.3
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
2018·7.1
Life of the Party
2018·6.1
Cook-Off!
2017·5.2
Three Christs
2017·6.7
Miles
2017·5.3
Infinity Baby
2017·6.3
Get Out
2017·7.6
Spectral
2016·6.6
Looking for the Jackalope
2016·4.0
Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates
2016·6.0
Tom and Jerry: Back to Oz
2016·6.1
Finding Dory
2016·7.0
All the Way
2016·6.6
Hello, My Name Is Doris
2015·6.3
O.W.C.A. Files
2015·7.5
Trumbo
2015·7.2
7 Chinese Brothers
2015·5.3
Selma
2014·7.4
Lennon or McCartney
2014·5.3
I Know That Voice
2014·7.1
Feels So Good
2013·5.1
Sweetwater
2013·6.1
Bad Milo!
2013·5.7
The Lone Ranger
2013·6.1
Superman: Unbound
2013·6.6
The Arrangement
2013·4.6
The Company You Keep
2012·6.2
Big Miracle
2012·6.7
J. Edgar
2011·6.2
Batman: Year One
2011·7.2
Red State
2011·6.0
Tom and Jerry & The Wizard of Oz
2011·6.3
Everything Must Go
2011·6.2
The Conspirator
2011·6.6
Rango
2011·6.9
Son of Morning
2011·3.0
Cedar Rapids
2011·5.9
Scooby-Doo! Camp Scare
2010·7.8
Unthinkable
2010·6.8
Glock
2009·0.0
The Men Who Stare at Goats
2009·6.0
13 Scarier Movie Moments
2009·9.0
Squirly Town
2009·0.0
Imagine That
2009·6.0
The Soloist
2009·6.7
Dr. Dolittle: Million Dollar Mutts
2009·5.5
Bob Funk
2009·4.6
Tripping the Rift: The Movie
2008·5.2
Leatherheads
2008·5.9
Drillbit Taylor
2008·5.8
Over Her Dead Body
2008·5.5
Mad Money
2008·6.5
No Country for Old Men
2007·7.9
Have Dreams, Will Travel
2007·7.6
The Fox and the Hound 2
2006·6.0
Idiocracy
2006·6.4
Gretchen
2006·6.7
Ice Age: The Meltdown
2006·6.7
Just Friends
2005·6.2
Kim Possible Movie: So the Drama
2005·6.9
Wake Up, Ron Burgundy: The Lost Movie
2004·6.0
Surviving Christmas
2004·5.7
DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story
2004·6.4
Jersey Girl
2004·6.2
The Ladykillers
2004·6.1
Raising Genius
2004·4.3
Grind
2003·6.0
The Making of 'King of the Hill'
2003·0.0
Finding Nemo
2003·7.8
The Country Bears
2002·4.8
Ice Age
2002·7.4
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
2000·7.3
Bicentennial Man
1999·7.3
The Sissy Duckling
1999·5.1
Office Space
1999·7.4
Gut Feeling
1999·10.0
The Monster Hunter
1999·5.0
Krippendorf's Tribe
1998·4.6
steve.oedekerk.com
1997·5.5
The Lottery
1996·6.0
The Road to Galveston
1996·4.5
In the Line of Duty: Hunt for Justice
1995·4.8
Night of the Scarecrow
1995·5.0
Bye Bye Love
1995·6.0
Her Final Fury: Betty Broderick, the Last Chapter
1994·6.3
Extreme Justice
1993·5.0
Dave
1993·6.7
Black Widow Murders: The Blanche Taylor Moore Story
1993·7.4
Class of '61
1993·4.4
RoboCop 3
1993·4.9
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
1992·5.6
A Woman Scorned: The Betty Broderick Story
1992·5.9
Bed & Breakfast
1991·5.8
V.I. Warshawski
1991·4.8
Golden Years
1991·5.8
Guilty by Suspicion
1991·6.5
Ghost
1990·7.2
Stanley & Iris
1990·6.5
Black Rain
1989·6.6
Monkey Shines
1988·6.3
Crocodile Dundee II
1988·5.9