Actor
· Acting
Joseph Cross
Born 1986-05-28
📍 New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
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 41
Affection
as Bruce Carter
2026
The Last Thing He Told Me
as Young Frank
2023
Devotion
as Charlie Ward
2022
Licorice Pizza
as Matthew
2021
Mank
as Charles Lederer
2020
Medal of Honor
as Sylvester Antolak
2018
MINDHUNTER
as Benjamin Barnwright
2017
Everything Beautiful Is Far Away
as Lernert
2017
Tilt
as Joseph Burns
2017
Big Little Lies
as Tom
2017
The Automatic Hate
as Davis Green
2016
Last Weekend
as Roger Green
2014
Jimmy P.
as Dr. Holt
2013
Mine Games
as Michael
2012
Lincoln
as John Hay
2012
Art Machine
as Declan
2012
Elementary
as Petros Franken
2012
Edwin Boyd: Citizen Gangster
as Val Kozak
2011
Born to Race
as Danny Krueger
2011
Son of Morning
as Philip Katz
2011
Falling Up
as Henry O'Shea
2009
Theatreland
as Self
2009
Milk
as Dick Pabich
2008
Untraceable
as Owen Reilly
2008
Running with Scissors
as Augusten Burroughs
2006
Flags of Our Fathers
as Franklin Sousley
2006
Strangers with Candy
as Derrick Blank
2006
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
as Self
2003
Smallville
as Jordan Cross
2001
The Spring
as Nick Conway
2000
Third Watch
as Eric Beckman
1999
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Adam Nesbit
1999
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Martin Parish
1999
Saint Maybe
as Thomas 10 Years
1998
Jack Frost
as Charlie Frost
1998
Northern Lights
as Jack
1998
Wide Awake
as Joshua Beal
1998
Desperate Measures
as Matthew Conner
1998
Touched by an Angel
as Petey Carmichael
1994
Law & Order
as Will Shea
1990
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Thomas, 10 years
1951