Stephen Root

Overview

Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
Nov 17, 1951 (73 years old)

Stephen Root

Known For

Wednesdays with Gramps
0h 5m
Movie 2025

Wednesdays with Gramps

A Dogman Short

Heads of State
1h 53m
Movie 2025

Heads of State

The UK Prime Minister and US President have a public rivalry that risks their countries’'alliance. But when they become targets of a powerful enemy, they're forced to rely on each other as they go on a wild, multinational run. Allied with Noel, a brilliant MI6 agent, they must find a way to thwart a conspiracy that threatens the free world.

Dog Man
1h 29m
Movie 2025

Dog Man

When a faithful police dog and his human police officer owner are injured together on the job, a harebrained but life-saving surgery fuses the two of them together and Dog Man is born. Dog Man is sworn to protect and serve—and fetch, sit and roll over. As Dog Man embraces his new identity and strives to impress his Chief, he must stop the pretty evil plots of feline supervillain Petey the Cat.

Lousy Carter
1h 20m
Movie 2024

Lousy Carter

Man-baby Lousy Carter struggles to complete his animated Nabokov adaptation, teaches a graduate seminar on The Great Gatsby, and sleeps with his best friend's wife. He has six months to live.

Masters of the Universe: Revolution
TV Show 2024

Masters of the Universe: Revolution

It's technology versus magic as He-Man and friends fight back against the shadowy forces of Skeletor in an epic battle for the heart of Eternia.

Praise Petey
TV Show 2023

Praise Petey

Petey is a New York City “it” girl who has it all until her life comes crashing down around her. As luck would have it, a mysterious gift from her father gives her a new lease on life: she’s going to “lean into” modernizing his small-town cult.

Paint
1h 36m
Movie 2023

Paint

Carl Nargle, Vermont’s #1 public television painter, is convinced he has it all: a signature perm, custom van, and fans hanging on his every stroke… until a younger, better artist steals everything (and everyone) Carl loves.

To Leslie
1h 59m
Movie 2022

To Leslie

A West Texas single mother wins the lottery and squanders it just as fast, leaving behind a world of heartbreak. Years later, with her charm running out and nowhere to go, she fights to rebuild her life and find redemption.

Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe
1h 26m
Movie 2022

Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe

In 1998, Beavis and Butt-Head are sentenced to Space Camp by a “creative” judge. Their obsession with a docking simulator (huh huh) leads to a trip on the Space Shuttle, with predictably disastrous results. After going through a black hole, they re-emerge in our time, where they look for love, misuse iPhones, and are hunted by the Deep State. Spoiler: They don’t score.

The Tragedy of Macbeth
1h 45m
Movie 2021

The Tragedy of Macbeth

Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders his king and takes the throne for himself.

Biography

Stephen Root (born November 17, 1951) is an American actor. He has starred as Jimmy James on the NBC sitcom NewsRadio, 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). 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), The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021). Other notable film roles include in 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 episode "Unification" (1991), Hawthorne Abendsen in seasons 2–4 of the series The Man in the High Castle. He has supporting roles in a variety of HBO series, including Boardwalk Empire, True Blood, Perry Mason, and Succession. He notably starred as Monroe Fuches / The Raven on the HBO dark comedy series Barry (2018–2023), for which he was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series in 2019.

Acting

2025
Wednesdays with Gramps
2025
Heads of State
2025
Dog Man
2024
Lousy Carter
2024
Masters of the Universe: Revolution
2023
Praise Petey
2023
Paint
2022
To Leslie
2022
Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe
2021
The Tragedy of Macbeth
2021
Queenpins
2021
Home
2021
Masters of the Universe: Revelation
2021
Four Good Days
2021
Happily
2020
Uncle Frank
2020
The Empty Man
2019
Bombshell
2019
Seberg
2019
Jay and Silent Bob Reboot
2018
On the Basis of Sex
2018
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
2018
Dallas & Robo
2018
Life of the Party
2018
Barry
2017
Cook-Off!
2017
Three Christs
2017
Miles
2017
Infinity Baby
2017
Get Out
2016
Spectral
2016
Looking for the Jackalope
2016
Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates
2016
Tom and Jerry: Back to Oz
2016
Finding Dory
2016
All the Way
2016
Idiotsitter
2015
Hello, My Name Is Doris
2015
O.W.C.A. Files
2015
Trumbo
2015
7 Chinese Brothers
2014
Selma
2014
Lennon or McCartney
2014
I Know That Voice
2013
Bad Milo!
2013
The Lone Ranger
2013
Superman: Unbound
2013
The Arrangement
2012
The Company You Keep
2012
Big Miracle
2011
Batman: Year One
2011
Tom and Jerry & The Wizard of Oz
2011
Red State
2011
The Conspirator
2011
Rango
2009
Glock
2009
13 Scarier Movie Moments
2009
Squirly Town
2009
The Soloist
2009
Dr. Dolittle: Million Dollar Mutts
2009
Bob Funk
2008
Leatherheads
2008
Drillbit Taylor
2008
Over Her Dead Body
2008
Mad Money
2007
No Country for Old Men
2006
The Fox and the Hound 2
2006
The Path to 9/11
2006
Idiocracy
2006
Gretchen
2006
Ice Age: The Meltdown
2004
Tripping the Rift
1999
Ladies Man
1999
The Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot
1999
The Sissy Duckling
1997
steve.oedekerk.com
1997
King of the Hill
1996
Pandora's Clock
1995
In the Line of Duty: Hunt for Justice
1995
NewsRadio
1995
Bye Bye Love
1994
Her Final Fury: Betty Broderick, the Last Chapter
1993
Harts of the West
1993
Extreme Justice
1993
Dave
1993
Black Widow Murders: The Blanche Taylor Moore Story
1993
Class of '61
1992
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
1992
A Woman Scorned: The Betty Broderick Story
1990
Stanley & Iris
1989
Black Rain

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