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

• 2026Affection — Bruce Carter
• 2026O Horizon — Producer
• The Last Thing He Told Me — Young Frank
• 2022Devotion — Charlie Ward
• 2021Licorice Pizza — Matthew
• 2020Mank — Charles Lederer
• 2019Summer Night — Director
• Medal of Honor — Sylvester Antolak
• Big Little Lies — Tom
• 2017Everything Beautiful Is Far Away — Lernert
• MINDHUNTER — Benjamin Barnwright
• 2017Tilt — Joseph Burns
• 2016The Automatic Hate — Davis Green
• 2014Last Weekend — Roger Green
• 2013Jimmy P. — Dr. Holt
• 2012Art Machine — Declan
• Elementary — Petros Franken
• 2012Lincoln — John Hay
• 2012Mine Games — Michael
• 2011Born to Race — Danny Krueger
• 2011Edwin Boyd: Citizen Gangster — Val Kozak
• 2011Son of Morning — Philip Katz, Co-Producer
• 2009Falling Up — Henry O'Shea
• 2008Milk — Dick Pabich
• 2008Untraceable — Owen Reilly
• 2006Flags of Our Fathers — Franklin Sousley
• 2006Running with Scissors — Augusten Burroughs
• 2006Strangers with Candy — Derrick Blank
• Criminal Minds — Marvin Bancroft
• The O'Keefes
• Smallville — Jordan Cross
• 2000The Spring — Nick Conway
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit — Adam Nesbit, Martin Parish
• Third Watch — Eric Beckman
• 1998Desperate Measures — Matthew Conner
• 1998Jack Frost — Charlie Frost
• 1998Northern Lights — Jack
• 1998Saint Maybe — Thomas 10 Years
• 1998Wide Awake — Joshua Beal
• Touched by an Angel — Petey Carmichael
• Law & Order — Will Shea
• Hallmark Hall of Fame — Thomas, 10 years
• Stay at Conder Beach — Jordan

Appearances as themselves (2)

• 2009Theatreland — Self
• Jimmy Kimmel Live! — Self - Guest