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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) 
Barry
as Monroe Fuches 
Heads of State
+1
as Arthur Hammond 
The Wrecking Crew
as Detective Rennert 
Widow's Bay
as Wyck Crawford 
Playdate
as Gordon 
Rango
+2
as Doc / Merrimack / Mr. Snuggles (voice) 
Ice Age: The Meltdown
+1
as Aardvark Dad (voice) 
Finding Nemo
as Bubbles (voice) 
Ice Age
+1
as Rhino / Start (voice) 
NewsRadio
as Jimmy James 
Get Out
+2
as Jim Hudson 
No Country for Old Men
+1
as Man Who Hires Wells 
The Tragedy of Macbeth
as Porter 
Ghost
+1
as Police Sgt. 
The Lone Ranger
+1
as Habberman 
Strip Law
as Glem Blorchman (voice) 
Bicentennial Man
+1
as Dennis Mansky 
Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice
as Chet 
RoboCop 3
as Coontz 
Masters of the Universe: Revelation
as Cringer / Battle Cat (voice) 
Trumbo
as Hymie King 
Tripping the Rift
as Chode (voice) 
DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story
+1
as Gordon 
Dog Man
+2
as Grampa (voice) 
The Ladykillers
as Fernand Gudge 
The Empty Man
+1
as Arthur Parsons 
The Fox and the Hound 2
as Talent Scout (voice) 
Ladies Man
as Gene 
Office Space
+1
as Milton 
It's Florida, Man.
as Title Narrator (voice) 
Just Friends
as KC 
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
as Teller (segment "Near Algodones") 
Masters of the Universe: Revolution
as Cringer (voice) 
Unthinkable
as Charles Thompson 
Black Rain
+1
as Berg 
Big Miracle
as Governor Haskell 
The Company You Keep
as Billy Cusimano 
Life of the Party
+2
as Mike Cook 
On the Basis of Sex
as Professor Brown 
Bombshell
+2
as Neil Mullin 
Crocodile Dundee II
+1
as DEA Agent (Toilet) 
The Soloist
as Curt Reynolds 
Scooby-Doo! Camp Scare
as Burt (voice) 
Praise Petey
as Petey's Father (voice) 
Red State
as Sherrif Wynan 
Queenpins
+4
as Agent Flannigan 
Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates
as Burt 
Harts of the West
as R.O 
The Men Who Stare at Goats
+2
as Gus Lacey 
Cedar Rapids
+1
as Bill Krogstad 
Paint
as Tony 
The Conspirator
as John Lloyd 
Batman: Year One
as Brendon (voice) 
Mad Money
as Glover 
Imagine That
as Fred Franklin 
Three Christs
as Dr. Rogers 
Over Her Dead Body
as Sculptor 
Jersey Girl
+1
as Greenie 
Superman: Unbound
as Zor-El (voice) 
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
as Gary Murray 
Dallas & Robo
as Uncle Danny 
Tom and Jerry & The Wizard of Oz
as Uncle Henry / Crows (voice) 
All the Way
as J. Edgar Hoover 
Four Good Days
as Chris 
Tom and Jerry: Back to Oz
as Uncle Henry (voice) 
The Country Bears
+1
as Zeb (voice) 
Grind
as Cameron 
V.I. Warshawski
as Mickey 
Hello, My Name Is Doris
+3
as Todd 
Surviving Christmas
as Dr. Freeman 
Stanley & Iris
+1
as Mr. Hentley 
Uncle Frank
as Daddy Mac 
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 
Leatherheads
as Suds 
Monkey Shines
as Dean Burbage 
Idiotsitter
as Ken Russel 
Cook-Off!
as Morty Van Rookle 
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 
Infinity Baby
as Fenton 
7 Chinese Brothers
as George 
Miles
as Ron Walton 
Extreme Justice
as Max Alvarez 
Her Final Fury: Betty Broderick, the Last Chapter
as Kevin McDonald 
Looking for the Jackalope
as The Jackalope (voice)