Stephen Root

Acting · Born 1951-11-17 in Sarasota, Florida, USA

Biography

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…

Filmography

• Finding Nemo as Bubbles (voice)
• Ghost as Police Sgt.
• Ice Age as Frank / Start (voice)
• Office Space as Milton Waddams
• Bicentennial Man as Dennis Mansky
• No Country for Old Men as Man Who Hires Wells
• The Tragedy of Macbeth as Porter
• Batman: Year One as Brendon (voice)
• Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe as Jail Tattoo Artist (voice)
• Trumbo as Hymie King

TV

• Seinfeld as Mr. Lager
• Teen Titans as Val Yor (voice)
• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation as Michael Kirkwood
• Star Trek: The Next Generation as Captain K'Vada
• Californication as Ricardo Collini
• Courage the Cowardly Dog
• 24 as Bill Prady
• Malcolm in the Middle as John Pratt
• Quantum Leap as John Tremaine Jr.
• The Simpsons as Bildorf (voice)