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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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Stephen Root, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Remake "aggiornatta" of the film that mixing blaxploitation and zombies in 1974, became a cult film. Sugar's boyfriend Langston is ordered by a thug to sell to him "Haiti" nightclub. As he refuses, he receives a fatal beating from the henchmen of the real brains behind the blackmail; the gangster Morgan and his even more aggressive, cruel and racist girlfriend, Celeste. Then Morgan pressures Sugar to give up the business, who resist and being aware that he and his lover are responsible for Lansgton's death, seeks help from Mama Maitrese, a Voodoo priestess who summons the Lord of the dead, Baron Samedi, . and Mamam Brigitt, his wife, mistress of the cycle of life and death, to revenge her boyfriend death. The different gangsters involved begin to suffer the consequences and generate to the distrust of Detective Valentine (an ex-boyfriend of Sugar). Obviously the greatest punishment is reserved for Morgan and, above all for Celeste who will be rescued from the swamp where she and her partner sink when they try to flee helplessly from the persecution of the zombies, but she discovers that the rescue is only to be taken to the underworld, as Samedi's harem slave.
