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Stephen Root (born November 17, 1951 in Sarasota, Florida) is an extremely prolific American actor, comedian, and voice actor. He often works with Mike Judge, and is perhaps best known for his iconic role as Milton Waddams in the cult classic Office Space. He's also known for his roles King of the Hill, voicing Bill Dauterive and Buck Strickland. He made a big impression on NewsRadio fans as maybe-Benevolent Boss Jimmy James. He also works frequently with the Coen Brothers and is mostly typecast in racism-related projects such as as a blind racist radio station manager in O Brother, Where Art Thou?, the Fantastic Racist Val-Yor in a Very Special Episode of Teen Titans, another blind man in Get Out (2017) and finally Hawthorne Abendsen in the Nazi-anti-semitism-dominated world-set The Man in the High Castle.

Film

1988 Monkey Shines as Dean Burbage
1990 Ghost as Police Sgt.
1992 Buffy the Vampire Slayer as Gary Murray
1993 Dave as Don Durenberger
1993 RoboCop 3 as Coontz
1999 Office Space as Milton Waddams
1999 Bicentennial Man as Dennis Mansky
2000 O Brother, Where Art Thou? as Radio Station Man
2002 Ice Age as Frank
2003 Finding Nemo as Bubbles
2004 The Ladykillers as Fernand Gudge
2004 Jersey Girl as Greenie
2006 Ice Age: The Meltdown as Aardvark Dad
2006 Idiocracy as Judge Hank "The Hangman" BMW
2007 No Country for Old Men as Man who hires Wells
2009 The Men Who Stare at Goats as Gus Lacey
2011 Rango as Doc and Merrimack
2011 Red State as Sheriff Wynan
2011 J. Edgar as Arthur Koehler
2013 The Lone Ranger as Habberman
2014 Selma as Al Lingo
2015 Trumbo as Hymie King
2016 Finding Dory as Bubbles
2016 Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates as Burt Stangle

2017 Get Out as Jim Hudson
2018 The Ballad of Buster Scruggs as the Bank Teller
2020 The Empty Man as Arthur Parsons

Television Roles

1991 Star Trek: The Next Generation as Captain K'Vada
1995–1999 NewsRadio as Jimmy James
1997–2010 King of the Hill as Bill Dauterive, Buck Strickland and various others (uncredited for the first 3 seasons)
2002 Malcolm in the Middle as John Pratt
2002-2005 Kim Possible as Various characters
2004-2007 Tripping the Rift as Chode
2005-2006 The West Wing as Bob Mayer
2005-2007 American Dad! as Dick / Dentist's Father
2008 Pushing Daisies as Dwight Dixon
2008-2009 True Blood as Eddie
2010 24 as Bill Prady
2010–2011 Batman: The Brave and the Bold as Oswald Cobblepot/The Penguin
2011 Fringe as Raymond
2010-2014 Justified as Judge Mike Reardon
2011-2017 Adventure Time as The Royal Tart Toter, Grimby, Martin