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Stephen Root
Known for: ActingStephen Root (born November 17, 1951) is an American actor and voice actor. Known for his extensive character actor roles in film and television, he gained attention for his roles as Jimmy James on the NBC sitcom NewsRadio (1995–1999), as Milton Waddams in the comedy film Office Space (1999), and voiced Bill Dauterive and Buck Strickland on the animated series King of the Hill (1997–2010, 2025–present).[1] 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), Bicentennial Man (1999), Dodgeball (2004), Idiocracy (2006), Cedar Rapids (2011), Selma (2014), Trumbo (2015), Get Out (2017), and On the Basis of Sex (2018), as well as his voice roles in Ice Age (2002) and Finding Nemo (2003). On television, he played supporting roles in Star Trek: The Next Generation (1991), True Blood (2008–2009), Boardwalk Empire (2012–2013), Fargo (2014), The Man in the High Castle (2016–2019), Perry Mason (2020), and Succession (2021–2023). He has received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series, in 2019 for the role of manipulative hitman handler Monroe Fuches in the HBO dark comedy crime series Barry (2018–2023) and in 2026 for the role of fisherman and outspoken superstitious Wyck Crawford in the Apple TV comedy horror series Widow's Bay (2026–present), which he won. Description above from the Wikipedia article Stephen Root, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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King of the Hill
as Bill Dauterive (voice) 
Germans de gresca
as Detective Rennert 
Widow's Bay
as Wyck Crawford 
Buscant en Nemo
as Bubbles (voice) 
Barry
as Monroe Fuches 
Ice Age: L'edat de gel
as Rhino / Start (voice) 
No es país para viejos
as Man Who Hires Wells 
Get Out
as Jim Hudson 
Ice Age 2: El desglaç
as Aardvark Dad (voice) 
NewsRadio
as Jimmy James 
Caps d'estat
as Arthur Hammond 
A l'aventura amb les criatures
as Gordon 
Ghost
as Police Sgt. 
Rango
as Doc / Merrimack / Mr. Snuggles (voice) 
Strip Law
as Glem Blorchman (voice) 
The Lone Ranger
as Habberman 
Dog Man
as Grampa (voice) 
L'home bicentenari
as Dennis Mansky 
Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice
as Chet 
Masters of the Universe: Revelation
as Cringer / Battle Cat (voice) 
Tripping the Rift
as Chode (voice) 
Qüestió de pilotes
as Gordon 
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
as Teller (segment "Near Algodones") 
The Empty Man
as Arthur Parsons 
The Fox and the Hound 2
as Talent Scout (voice) 
Ladies Man
as Gene 
Office Space
as Milton 
It's Florida, Man.
as Title Narrator (voice) 
The Tragedy of Macbeth
as Porter 
Masters of the Universe: Revolution
as Cringer (voice) 
The Ladykillers
as Fernand Gudge 
Just Friends
as KC 
Unthinkable
as Charles Thompson 
Black Rain
as Berg 
Big Miracle
as Governor Haskell 
Pacte de silenci
as Billy Cusimano 
L’escàndol
as Neil Mullin 
Life of the Party
as Mike Cook 
Per raó de sexe
as Professor Brown 
Robocop 3
as Coontz 
Cocodril Dundee II
as DEA Agent (Toilet) 
El solista
as Curt Reynolds 
L'Scooby-Doo! El campament de la por
as Burt (voice) 
Praise Petey
as Petey's Father (voice) 
Les noies dels cupons
as Agent Flannigan 
Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates
as Burt 
Harts of the West
as R.O 
Els homes que miraven fixament les cabres
as Gus Lacey 
Cedar Rapids
as Bill Krogstad 
La conspiració
as John Lloyd 
Batman: Year One
as Brendon (voice) 
Tres dones i un pla
as Glover 
Imagine That
as Fred Franklin 
Three Christs
as Dr. Rogers 
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
as Gary Murray 
Over Her Dead Body
as Sculptor 
Jersey Girl
as Greenie 
Red State
as Sherrif Wynan 
Superman: Unbound
as Zor-El (voice) 
Dallas & Robo
as Uncle Danny 
Trumbo: la llista negra de Hollywood
as Hymie King 
Tom i Jerry i el màgic d’Oz
as Uncle Henry / Crows (voice) 
All the Way
as J. Edgar Hoover 
4 dies
as Chris 
Tom and Jerry: Back to Oz
as Uncle Henry (voice) 
The Country Bears
as Zeb (voice) 
V.I. Warshawski
as Mickey 
Hola, el meu nom és Doris
as Todd 
Surviving Christmas
as Dr. Freeman 
Iris i Stanley
as Mr. Hentley 
Uncle Frank
as Daddy Mac 
Paint
as Tony 
Everything Must Go
as Elliot 
Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe
as Jail Tattoo Artist (voice) 
To Leslie
as Dutch 
Bad Milo!
as Roger 
Krippendorf's Tribe
as Gerald Adams 
Ella és el partit
as Suds 
Atracció diabòlica
as Dean Burbage 
Idiotsitter
as Ken Russel 
Cook-Off!
as Morty Van Rookle 
Grind
as Cameron 
Sweetwater
as Hugh 
Have Dreams, Will Travel
as Sheriff Brock 
Seberg
as Walt Breckman 
Happily
as Goodman 
Home
as Father Browning 
Lousy Carter
as Analyst 
The Sissy Duckling
as Big Ducky (voice) 
In the Line of Duty: Hunt for Justice
as Jaan Laaman 
The Arrangement
as Avery Boomer 
Son of Morning
as Senator Larder 
A Woman Scorned: The Betty Broderick Story
as Kevin McDonald 
7 Chinese Brothers
as George 
Infinity Baby
as Fenton 
Extreme Justice
as Max Alvarez 
Miles
as Ron Walton 
Her Final Fury: Betty Broderick, the Last Chapter
as Kevin McDonald 
Looking for the Jackalope
as The Jackalope (voice)