
Joseph Cross
Department: Acting
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.
Known For

Milk
2008

Flags of Our Fathers
2006

Running with Scissors
2006

Untraceable
2008

Jack Frost
1998

Wide Awake
1998

Strangers with Candy
2006

Jimmy P.
2013

Falling Up
2009

Lincoln
2012

Son of Morning
2011

Born to Race
2011

Edwin Boyd: Citizen Gangster
2011

Mine Games
2012

Art Machine
2012

Theatreland
2009

Stay at Conder Beach
—

Northern Lights
1998

Devotion
2022

Desperate Measures
1998

Last Weekend
2014

The Automatic Hate
2016

The Spring
2000

Affection
2025

Tilt
2017

Everything Beautiful Is Far Away
2017

Mank
2020

Licorice Pizza
2021

Saint Maybe
1998

Third Watch
1999

Law & Order
1990

Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003

Touched by an Angel
1994

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999

Smallville
2001

Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951

The O'Keefes
2003

MINDHUNTER
2017

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999

Elementary
2012

Medal of Honor
2018

Big Little Lies
2017