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American actor Joseph Cross was born on May 28, 1986, in New Brunswick, NJ. He attended Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, and made his motion picture debut in M. Night Shyamalan's 1998 comedy film "Wide Awake." He also had roles in the films "Desperate Measures" and "Jack Frost," but he is best known for his roles as Augusten Burroughs in the movie "Running With Scissors" and as Franklin Sousley in the war drama "Flags of Our Fathers." Joseph's television credits include appearances on "Law & Order," "Third Watch" and "Strangers With Candy." In his free time, Joseph is a guitarist for the rock band Roostir.

Fresh-faced actor Joseph Cross established himself as an onscreen presence from the late '90s onward, with a series of effective and tightly knit characterizations in consistently interesting (if critically divisive) projects. After a somewhat mawkish start, as the lovelorn preteen son in the family-oriented Michael Keaton movie Jack Frost (1998), Cross ultimately breached more adult-oriented material, much of it offbeat. He landed two of his most prominent roles in the mid-2000s: white trash Jerri Blank's (Amy Sedaris) jockey stepbrother in the satirical comedy Strangers with Candy (2005) and young Augusten Burroughs, a youngster growing up amid a hopelessly dysfunctional and cracked environment, in Ryan Murphy's adaptation of Burroughs' memoir, Running with Scissors (2006). The latter represented Cross' premier lead; most critics commended his efforts and his ambition, even as they panned the film for the incohesiveness of its elements. The following year, Cross also landed a supporting role in the Diane Lane thriller Untraceable (2008). Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide

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