Stephen Root

Stephen Root (born November 17, 1951) is an American actor. He portrayed Jimmy James on the NBC sitcom *NewsRadio* (1995–1999), played 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 several 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). Additional 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).

In television, he played 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 had supporting roles in various 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 received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series in 2019.