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Stephen Root (Sculptor/Angel)
Stephen Root is among the most prolific of television and film character actors working today, including lending his voice to many animated characters. Mike Judge, creator of the Emmy winning hit animated television series King of the Hill cast him as the voice of 'Bill,' Hank Hill's next-door neighbor and 'Mr. Strickland,' Hank's boss, on the series. For television, he was also heard as 'Chode' in Tripping the Rift and lent his voice to 'Dick' on the animated series American Dad. Animated features include the voice of 'Bubbles' the fish in the hit, Finding Nemo, Ice Age, in which he voiced a hilariously menacing 'Rhino,' and 'Zeb' in Country Bears. He provided voices for The Big Guy and Rusty the Robot, as 'Donovan' and Star Command, as 'Sheriff.'Root starred as the eccentric station owner 'Jimmy James' on the series News Radio for five seasons. He was a series regular on Ladies Man with Alfred Molina and Harts of the West with Beau and Lloyd Bridges. He also had recurring roles on The West Wing, the award-winning series From the Earth to the Moon, as well as the television series Grounded for Life, Civil Wars and L.A. Law. He also has guest starred on many series, including: Frasier, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Just Shoot Me, DAG, Seinfeld, Chicago Hope, Christy, Cybill, Sweet Justice, Roseanne, Night Court, Murphy Brown, Northern Exposure and Star Trek: The Next Generation.
He has also appeared in The Path to 9/11, the miniseries Pandora's Clock and received a nomination for a Cable ACE Award for his performance in the cable movie Road to Galveston, with Cicely Tyson and Piper Laurie.
On film, he starred as the put upon 'Milton Waddams' in Office Space, with Jennifer Aniston. This comedy re-teamed him with director Mike Judge. He also co-starred as 'Gordon' in the hit feature Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story with Ben Stiller and Vince Vaughn and appeared in Anchorman with Will Farrell. Other theatrical performances include the Coen Brothers' features O' Brother, Where Art Thou? as the blind 'Radio Station Man' and The Ladykillers, Kevin Smith's Jersey Girl opposite Ben Affleck, Surviving Christmas, Raising Genius, Bicentennial Man, Krippendorf's Tribe, Bye Bye Love, Extreme Justice, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Robocop III, V.I. Warshawski, Ghost, Black Rain, Crocodile Dundee, Guilty by Suspicion and Stanley and Iris.
Root majored in acting and broadcasting at the University of Florida and then left before graduating when he won a regional audition for the National Shakespeare Company. After three years of touring the U.S. and Canada with the troupe, Root settled in New York, honing his craft in regional theatre and starring in off-Broadway's Journey's End and The Au Pair Man. His Broadway debut came in So Long on Lonely Street, followed by the Tony award-winning production of All My Sons, in which he starred opposite Richard Kiley. He also starred in the national tour of Driving Miss Daisy.
Over Her Dead Body starring Eva Longoria Parker, Paul Rudd, Lake Bell, Jason Biggs, Lindsay Sloane and Stephen Root
distributed by New Line Cinema
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