Stephen Root joins AMC's Revolutionary War spy series Turn. No red staplers will be involved, though.
Stephen Root is coming to AMC’s Revolutionary War spy series Turn. Stephen Root played the smoothly duplicitous special investigator for the Department of Justice Gaston Means on Boardwalk Empire and Jimmy James on the TV sitcom NewsRadio, but is probably best known as Milton Waddams in the film Office Space.
Root signed on for a recurring role as Nathaniel Sackett a civilian member of a proto-CIA group the Committee to Detect and Defeat Conspiracies, America’s first spy group, circa 1778. Turnis based on the book Washington Spies by Alexander Rose. It stars Jamie Bell as Abe Woodhull a farmer who gets his friends to together to form The Culper Ring spy group that gathered intelligence during Revolutionary War. AMC’s Turnwas created and is being executive produced by Craig Silverstein.
Root also appeared in Pushing Daisies, Justified, King Of The Hill, Finding Nemoand No Country For Old Men.
Turn premieres on April 6.
SOURCE:Deadline
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