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Stephen Root

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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, 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.

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Стывен Рут

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Chinese (zh-CN)

Name

斯蒂芬·鲁特

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Chinese (zh-HK)

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斯蒂芬·魯特

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German (de-DE)

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Stephen Root, geboren am 17. November 1951 in Sarasota, Florida, ist ein US-amerikanischer Schauspieler, bekannt für seine Vielseitigkeit und sein Talent in Komödien sowie ernsten Rollen. Er wurde besonders durch die Rolle des Jimmy James in der NBC-Sitcom NewsRadio bekannt und spielte Milton Waddams in dem Kultfilm Office Space (1999). Zudem lieh er in der Zeichentrickserie King of the Hill (1997–2010) den Figuren Bill Dauterive und Buck Strickland seine Stimme.

Root wirkte in mehreren Filmen der Coen-Brüder mit, darunter O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), The Ladykillers (2004), No Country for Old Men (2007), The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018) und The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021). Weitere bemerkenswerte Filme sind Dave (1993), DodgeBall (2004), Idiocracy (2006), Cedar Rapids (2011), Selma (2014), Trumbo (2015), Get Out (2017) und On the Basis of Sex (2018).

Im Fernsehen spielte er unter anderem Capt. K'Vada in der Star Trek: The Next Generation-Doppelfolge „Unification“ (1991) sowie Hawthorne Abendsen in den Staffeln 2 bis 4 der Serie The Man in the High Castle. Er hatte Nebenrollen in mehreren HBO-Serien wie Boardwalk Empire, True Blood, Perry Mason und Succession. Besonders bekannt ist er für seine Hauptrolle als Monroe Fuches / The Raven in der HBO-Dark-Comedy-Serie Barry (2018–2023), für die er 2019 eine Primetime Emmy-Nominierung als bester Nebendarsteller in einer Comedy-Serie erhielt.

Stephen Root ist seit 2008 mit Romy Rosemont verheiratet und lebt in Los Angeles. Er ist für seine charakterstarken Darstellungen und seine Fähigkeit bekannt, sowohl komische als auch dramatische Rollen überzeugend zu spielen.

Japanese (ja-JP)

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スティーヴン・ルート

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Korean (ko-KR)

Name

스티븐 루트

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Russian (ru-RU)

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Стивен Рут

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Ukrainian (uk-UA)

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Стівен Рут

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