Stephen Root

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1951-11-17 (74 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 ...

Acting

2003

Finding Nemo

as Bubbles (voice)

1990

Ghost

as Police Sgt.

2002

Ice Age

as Frank / Start (voice)

1999

Office Space

as Milton Waddams

2005

1999

Bicentennial Man

as Dennis Mansky

1999

The Sissy Duckling

as Big Ducky (voice)

2008

1993

RoboCop 3

as Coontz

1993

Dave

as Don Durenberger

1991

Golden Years

as Major Moreland

1998

Krippendorf's Tribe

as Gerald Adams

2007

No Country for Old Men

as Man Who Hires Wells

2008

Mad Money

as Glover

2004

Jersey Girl

as Greenie

2006

The Fox and the Hound 2

as Talent Scout (voice)

2008

2021

Queenpins

as Agent Flannigan

1988

Monkey Shines

as Dean Burbage

2007

Have Dreams, Will Travel

as Sheriff Brock

2011

The Conspirator

as John Lloyd

2008

2004

Surviving Christmas

as Dr. Freeman

2019

Jay and Silent Bob Reboot

as Cockmando (voice)

2010

Unthinkable

as Charles Thompson

2011

Rango

as Doc / Merrimack / Mr. Snuggles (voice)

2011

2009

The Soloist

as Curt Reynolds

2011

Red State

as Sherrif Wynan

2002

The Country Bears

as Zeb Zoober (voice)

2011

Batman: Year One

as Brendon (voice)

2009

Bob Funk

as Steve

2004

Raising Genius

as Dwight Nestor

2009

Imagine That

as Fred Franklin

2011

Cedar Rapids

as Bill Krogstad

2025

Heads of State

as Arthur Hammond

2009

Squirly Town

as Lance (voice)

2011

Son of Morning

as Senator Larder

2016

Looking for the Jackalope

as The Jackalope (voice)

2012

Big Miracle

as Governor Haskell

2012

The Company You Keep

as Billy Cusimano

2024

Lousy Carter

as Analyst

1999

Gut Feeling

as Kane Cohen

1999

The Monster Hunter

as Mr. Crenshaw

2013

Sweetwater

as Hugh

2013

Superman: Unbound

as Zor-El (voice)

2013

Bad Milo!

as Roger

1991

Bed & Breakfast

as Randolph

2015

O.W.C.A. Files

as Floyd / Additional Voices (voice)

2022

Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe

as Jail Tattoo Artist (voice)

2013

The Arrangement

as Avery Boomer

1993

Extreme Justice

as Max Alvarez

1988

Crocodile Dundee II

as DEA Agent (Toilet)

2015

1993

Class of '61

as Secretary of War Edwin Stanton

2016

All the Way

as J. Edgar Hoover

2004

The Ladykillers

as Fernand Gudge

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Playdate

as Gordon

2017

Miles

as Ron Walton

2017

Cook-Off!

as Morty Van Rookle

2015

Trumbo

as Hymie King

2008

Drillbit Taylor

as Principal Doppler

2016

Finding Dory

as Bubbles (voice)

1989

Black Rain

as Berg

1992

2000

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

as Radio Station Man

2017

Infinity Baby

as Fenton

2013

The Lone Ranger

as Habberman

2017

Get Out

as Jim Hudson

2006

Ice Age: The Meltdown

as Aardvark Dad (voice)

2014

Selma

as Col. Al Lingo

2011

Tom and Jerry & The Wizard of Oz

as Uncle Henry / Crows (voice)

2003

Grind

as Cameron

2018

Life of the Party

as Mike Cook

2018

On the Basis of Sex

as Professor Brown

2010

Scooby-Doo! Camp Scare

as Burt (voice)

2006

Idiocracy

as Judge Hector "The Hangman" (uncredited)

1991

2019

Seberg

as Walt Breckman

2020

The Empty Man

as Arthur Parsons

2018

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

as Teller (segment "Near Algodones")

1991

1996

The Lottery

as Graham Dunbar

2006

Gretchen

as Herb

2020

Uncle Frank

as Daddy Mac

2021

2005

Kim Possible Movie: So the Drama

as Cowboy Gambler (voice; uncredited)

2019

Bombshell

as Neil Mullin

2017

Three Christs

as Dr. Rogers

2009

Glock

as Remington

1996

2021

Happily

as Goodman

2011

J. Edgar

as Arthur Koehler

2016

Tom and Jerry: Back to Oz

as Uncle Henry (voice)

2021

Home

as Father Browning

2023

Paint

as Tony

2022

To Leslie

as Dutch

2016

Spectral

as Dr. Mindala

1990

Stanley & Iris

as Mr. Hentley

2025

Dog Man

as Grampa (voice)

1995

Bye Bye Love

as Awakened Neighbor

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