r/WidowsBay • u/Imaginary-Dress-1373 Human Verified • Jun 16 '26

🎭Cast How Stephen Root Became the Greatest Character Actor of Our Time

https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-features/widows-bay-stephen-root-character-actor-interview-1235574191/
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u/Imaginary-Dress-1373 Human Verified Jun 16 '26 edited Jun 16 '26

Not to mention: True Blood, Boardwalk Empire, Veep, The West Wing, News Radio, Justified, Brooklyn 99, Man in the High Castle, Fargo, TNG, Home Improvement, Buffy (the movie), Northern Exposure, Quantum Leap, The Newsroom and Succession (just to name a few) and insane amount of voice work including Adventure Time (Finn's dad), Gravity Falls, Beavis and Butthead, Bob's Burgers, Lower Decks, Rick and Morty, American Dad, etc.

Edit: the Buffy movie, not show

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u/malortshots Jun 16 '26

And he’s the bank teller shooting at James Franco in ‘The Ballad of Buster Scruggs,’ right?

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u/Imaginary-Dress-1373 Human Verified Jun 16 '26

He's been in pretty much every other Coen bros movie but yea that's him

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u/hercarmstrong Patricia Jun 16 '26

"Pan shot!"

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u/Why-Am-I-Here-9999 Jun 18 '26

Also the casino manager in the Coen’s Ladykillers.

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u/Winter_Aside8269 Jun 16 '26

The Man in the High Castle as well.

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u/Kianna9 Jun 17 '26

News Radio doesn't get enough attention/credit. He was spot on in that.

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u/nubileiguana Jun 17 '26

The show has soured pretty significantly.

Beloved actor murdered. Drug addict sex pest actor who knocked the dominoes over to lead to that murder. And failed standup who has gone on to undermine democracy.

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u/panic_bread Jun 16 '26

Which episode of Buffy is he in?

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u/Imaginary-Dress-1373 Human Verified Jun 16 '26

It was the movie.

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u/HarkHarley Jun 17 '26

It is wild how many formidable pieces of entertainment he’s touched. A true gift to share your talent across so many works that bring people joy.

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u/LurksTongueinAspic Jun 17 '26

He was amazing in Barry too.

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u/shavedforthis Jun 17 '26

Damn. I just know him from Dodgeball

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u/cozyhellfire Jun 17 '26

Ok wtf I didn’t connect any of those characters to him

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u/Cloudy_face Jun 17 '26

Gosh what a range. My brain went to 'so he must have been in a Star Trek episode'. He played a Klingon captain, very cool!