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Joseph Cross

Acting

Born May 28, 1986 · New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA

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.

Filmography36 titles

Smallville

2001as Jordan Cross

MINDHUNTER

2017as Benjamin Barnwright

Big Little Lies

2017as Tom

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

1999as Martin Parish

Third Watch

1999as Eric Beckman

Elementary

2012as Petros Franken

Law & Order

1990as Will Shea

Milk

2008as Dick Pabich

Touched by an Angel

1994as Petey Carmichael

The Last Thing He Told Me

2023as Young Frank

Devotion

2022as Charlie Ward

Licorice Pizza

2021as Matthew

Born to Race

2011as Danny Krueger

Flags of Our Fathers

2006as Franklin Sousley

Lincoln

2012as John Hay

Mank

2020as Charles Lederer

Medal of Honor

2018as Sylvester Antolak

Everything Beautiful Is Far Away

2017as Lernert

Saint Maybe

1998as Thomas 10 Years

Untraceable

2008as Owen Reilly

Affection

2026as Bruce Carter

Jimmy P: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian

2013as Dr. Holt

Jack Frost

1998as Charlie Frost

Desperate Measures

1998as Matthew Conner

The Automatic Hate

2016as Davis Green

Running with Scissors

2006as Augusten Burroughs

Tilt

2017as Joseph Burns

Citizen Gangster

2011as Val Kozak

Strangers with Candy

2005as Derrick Blank

Mine Games

2012as Michael

Wide Awake

1998as Joshua Beal

Summer Night

2019Director

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

2003as Self

Falling Up

2009as Henry O'Shea

Art Machine

2012as Declan

Last Weekend

2014as Roger Green