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My Take
Stephen Root is my favorite kind of actor: the one whose name you might not know but whose face instantly makes a scene better. Milton mumbling about his stapler in Office Space is one of comedy's great small performances, and his voice work on King of the Hill showed a completely different register of the same gift. What I admire most is the longevity; from NewsRadio in the nineties to new animation in his seventies, he keeps finding ways to be indispensable without chasing the spotlight. Character actors like Root are the connective tissue of American film and television, and for my money he is one of the very best alive.
Overview
Stephen Root (born November 17, 1951) is an American actor. He has starred as Jimmy James on the NBC sitcom NewsRadio (1995–1999), 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, 2025–present).
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Stephen Root
- Name (Japanese)
- スティーヴン・ルート
- Reading
- すてぃーゔん・るーと
- Born
- November 17, 1951 (age 74)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Scorpio / Rabbit
- Origin
- Sarasota, Florida, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- actor / character actor / film actor / television actor / voice actor
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Vero Beach High School
- University
- University of Florida
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-11
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.