Acting · New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA · Born May 28, 1986
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.
MovieAffection
2026
as Bruce Carter
TVThe Last Thing He Told Me
2023
as Young Frank
MovieDevotion
2022
as Charlie Ward
MovieLicorice Pizza
2021
as Matthew
MovieMank
2020
as Charles Lederer
TVMedal of Honor
2018
as Sylvester Antolak
TVMINDHUNTER
2017
as Benjamin Barnwright
MovieEverything Beautiful Is Far Away
2017
as Lernert
MovieTilt
2017
as Joseph Burns
TVBig Little Lies
2017
as Tom
MovieThe Automatic Hate
2016
as Davis Green
MovieLast Weekend
2014
as Roger Green
MovieJimmy P.
2013
as Dr. Holt
MovieMine Games
2012
as Michael
MovieLincoln
2012
as John Hay
MovieArt Machine
2012
as Declan
TVElementary
2012
as Petros Franken
MovieEdwin Boyd: Citizen Gangster
2011
as Val Kozak
MovieBorn to Race
2011
as Danny Krueger
MovieSon of Morning
2011
as Philip Katz
MovieFalling Up
2009
as Henry O'Shea
MovieTheatreland
2009
as Self
MovieMilk
2008
as Dick Pabich
MovieUntraceable
2008
as Owen Reilly
MovieRunning with Scissors
2006
as Augusten Burroughs
MovieFlags of Our Fathers
2006
as Franklin Sousley
MovieStrangers with Candy
2006
as Derrick Blank
TVCriminal Minds
2005
as Marvin Bancroft
The O'Keefes
2003
TVJimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
as Self
TVSmallville
2001
as Jordan Cross
MovieThe Spring
2000
as Nick Conway
TVThird Watch
1999
as Eric Beckman
TVLaw & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
as Adam Nesbit
MovieSaint Maybe
1998
as Thomas 10 Years
MovieJack Frost
1998
as Charlie Frost
MovieNorthern Lights
1998
as Jack
MovieWide Awake
1998
as Joshua Beal
MovieDesperate Measures
1998
as Matthew Conner
TVTouched by an Angel
1994
as Petey Carmichael
TVLaw & Order
1990
as Will Shea
TVHallmark Hall of Fame
1951
as Thomas, 10 years
Stay at Conder Beach
as Jordan
