Joseph Cross
Acting • Born 1986-05-28
Biography
Joseph Michael Cross (born May 28, 1986) is an American actor and producer. He began work as a child actor, starring in the 1998 films Desperate Measures, Wide Awake, and Jack Frost. He won the Satellite Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture for Running with Scissors (2006), and co-starred in Flags of Our Fathers (2006), Untraceable (2008), Milk (2008), and Lincoln (2012). From 1999 to 2004, Cross starred as Casey Hughes in the CBS soap opera As the World Turns. In 2017, he appeared in the HBO limited series Big Little Lies and the Netflix crime drama series Mindhunter.
Filmography
42 credits
Milk
Movie • 2008
Dick Pabich
Flags of Our Fathers
Movie • 2006
Franklin Sousley
Running with Scissors
Movie • 2006
Augusten Burroughs
Untraceable
Movie • 2008
Owen Reilly
Jack Frost
Movie • 1998
Charlie Frost
Wide Awake
Movie • 1998
Joshua Beal
Strangers with Candy
Movie • 2006
Derrick Blank
Jimmy P.
Movie • 2013
Dr. Holt
Falling Up
Movie • 2009
Henry O'Shea
Lincoln
Movie • 2012
John Hay
Son of Morning
Movie • 2011
Philip Katz
Born to Race
Movie • 2011
Danny Krueger
Edwin Boyd: Citizen Gangster
Movie • 2011
Val Kozak
Mine Games
Movie • 2012
Michael
Art Machine
Movie • 2012
Declan
Theatreland
Movie • 2009
Self
Stay at Conder Beach
Movie
Jordan
Northern Lights
Movie • 1998
Jack
Devotion
Movie • 2022
Charlie Ward
Desperate Measures
Movie • 1998
Matthew Conner
Last Weekend
Movie • 2014
Roger Green
The Automatic Hate
Movie • 2016
Davis Green
The Spring
Movie • 2000
Nick Conway
Affection
Movie • 2025
Tilt
Movie • 2017
Joseph Burns
Everything Beautiful Is Far Away
Movie • 2017
Lernert
Mank
Movie • 2020
Charles Lederer
Licorice Pizza
Movie • 2021
Matthew
Saint Maybe
Movie • 1998
Thomas 10 Years
Third Watch
TV • 1999
Eric Beckman
Law & Order
TV • 1990
Will Shea
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
TV • 2003
Self
Touched by an Angel
TV • 1994
Petey Carmichael
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
TV • 1999
Adam Nesbit
Smallville
TV • 2001
Jordan Cross
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
Thomas, 10 years
The O'Keefes
TV • 2003
MINDHUNTER
TV • 2017
Benjamin Barnwright
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
TV • 1999
Martin Parish
Elementary
TV • 2012
Petros Franken
Medal of Honor
TV • 2018
Sylvester Antolak
Big Little Lies
TV • 2017
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