He makes a brief cameo appearance in the 1990 movie Ghost.Īmong his most recognized television roles are eccentric billionaire Jimmy James on the sitcom NewsRadio and in a recurring role on the final two seasons of The West Wing as Republican campaign consultant Bob Mayer. That same year, he acted in the psychological horror film Monkey Shines as Dean Burbage.

Root made his feature film debut in the 1988 film Crocodile Dundee II as a DEA agent. He also appeared in All My Sons as Frank Lubey, and as Jon in the 2015 play Marjorie Prime. Root began his career on stage in 1980, He made his Broadway acting debut in the play Journey's End, playing 2nd Lieutenant Trotter. Subsequently he was granted a BFA after completion of his final semester based on the quality and character of his acting career, having left college to pursue Broadway theater in his final semester. The university recognized him as one of its distinguished alumni in 2008. He received his Associate of Arts degree from the University of Florida and trained in the Bachelor in Fine Arts (BFA) acting program.

Root graduated from Vero Beach High School in Vero Beach, Florida. Root has likened his childhood to that of an Army brat, as his family frequently relocated while his father finished each construction project. Root was born in Sarasota, Florida on November 17, 1951, the son of Leona Estelle and Rolland Clair Root, a project superintendent and site manager on major civil engineering projects throughout the US and Mexico. He currently stars 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. He has supporting roles in a variety of HBO series, including Boardwalk Empire, True Blood, Perry Mason, and Succession. 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. 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). 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). Stephen Root (born November 17, 1951) is an American actor.

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