Stephen Root provided the voice of ‘Bubbles' in the blockbuster Academy Award® winner Finding Nemo, and co-stars opposite Ben Affleck, George Carlin, Jennifer Lopez and Liv Tyler in Kevin Smith's Jersey Girl.

Root voices Chode in Tripping the Rift for the Sci-Fi Channel. This edgy half-hour CGI-animated series is based on the award-winning short film of the same name.

Some of Root's best know characters are Jimmy James on the television comedy NewsRadio, which aired from 1995-1999; the put-upon Milton Waddams in Twentieth Century Fox 1999's feature Office Space, with Ron Livingston and Jennifer Aniston; and as the voice of Bill, Hank Hill's next-door neighbor on Mike Judge's popular Fox series King of the Hill.

Root provided the voices for the animated series The Big Guy and Star Command. Feature film voice work includes Twentieth Century Fox's Ice Age and Disney's Country Bears.

His live-action feature film credits include O Brother, Where Art Thou? Bicentennial Man, Krippendorf's Tribe, Bye Bye Love, Dave, Kindergarten Cop, Extreme Justice, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Robocop III, V.I. Warshawski, Ghost, Black Rain, Crocodile Dundee, Guilty by Suspicion and Stanley and Iris.

Root's television credits include Stephen King's The Golden Years, Harts of the West, From the Earth to the Moon, The Betty Broderick Story, Sweet Justice, L.A. Law, Ladies Man, Grounded for Life, Malcolm in the Middle, Christy, Chicago Hope, NYPD Blue, Murphy Brown, Home Improvement, Party of Five, Northern Exposure and Roseanne.

Root also appeared in the NBC miniseries Pandora's Clock and he was nominated for a CableACE Award for his performance in the cable movie Road to Galveston, with Cicely Tyson and Piper Laurie.

His Broadway debut came in So Long on Lonely Street, which was followed by the Tony® Award-winning production of All My Sons, starring opposite Richard Kiley. A starring role in the national tour of Driving Miss Daisy with Julie Harris brought Root to Los Angeles.