Actors Journal – Stephen Root

Stephen Root, one of today’s most prolific character actors, currently stars in HBO’s hit series Barry, for which he received a Best Supporting Actor Emmy nomination. Root appeared in Bombshell, On the Basis of Sex, Life of the Party, and Netflix’s The Ballad of Buster Scruggs. Root was part of Jordan Peele’s box office hit Get Out. He earned rave reviews for bringing a variety of characters to life in films such as O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Selma, No Country for Old Men, and Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story. He was catapulted into the realm of cult hero when he starred as the put-upon Milton Waddams in Office Space.