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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). 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), 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) and 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 starred as Monroe Fuches in the HBO dark comedy series Barry, for which he was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series in 2019. Description above from the Wikipedia article Stephen Root, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
The planned (in 2017) Netflix biopic series about Vince McMahon, Jr. In 1980-1988 Vince Jr tries to convince his father to take wrestling entertainment to new heights. He balances family life, cocaine and steroid addiction. He has issues convincing WWF champion Backlund to roll over for new star Hulk Hogan. He deals with his main rival, Jim Crockett, Jr, and his successor Ted Turner. In 1991, he deals with the steroid trial, his affair and allegations of sexual misconduct, while Ted Turner and Eric Bischoff turn up the heat with higher ratings through WCW. In 1998, losing the rating war to WCW, WWE creative team member climbs the ranks with his “crash tv style”. He butts heads with McMahon and crosses over to the WCW. 2000-2001 Vince wins the ratings war, breaks the 4th wall and demands creative control over the Netflix biopic, and introduces the true story of Pandemonium! A ten minute recap edited to not make Vince look bad. He then hires Bischoff and rehires Russo just to publicly fire and humiliate them.
