Average work score
This score reflects analyzed projects, not the actor's personal beliefs.
Stephen Root
Average work score
This score reflects analyzed projects, not the actor's personal beliefs.
We rate the works, not the person. Woke Scores describe themes in movies and shows featuring Stephen Root. They do not label this actor as “woke” or represent their personal beliefs.
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.
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Career Woke Trend
| Date | Average score out of 10 | Titles analyzed |
|---|---|---|
| 1997-07-01 | 1 | 2 |
| 1998-07-01 | 2 | 1 |
| 1999-07-01 | 0.5 | 2 |
| 2000-07-01 | 2 | 1 |
| 2001-07-01 | 3 | 1 |
| 2002-07-01 | 0.5 | 2 |
| 2003-07-01 | 1 | 2 |
| 2004-07-01 | 1 | 1 |
| 2005-07-01 | 2 | 1 |
| 2007-07-01 | 1.3 | 3 |
| 2008-07-01 | 1 | 2 |
| 2009-07-01 | 2 | 1 |
| 2017-07-01 | 9 | 1 |
| 2018-07-01 | 2 | 1 |
| 2019-07-01 | 3 | 1 |
| 2021-07-01 | 6 | 1 |
| 2022-07-01 | 1 | 1 |
| 2023-07-01 | 3.5 | 2 |
| 2024-07-01 | 2 | 3 |
| 2025-07-01 | 1.5 | 4 |
| 2026-07-01 | 1.5 | 4 |
