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{{short description|French-American actress}}
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| birth_place = [[Paris]], [[France]]
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== Personal life ==
== Personal life ==
Cross was born in [[Paris]], [[France]]. Her father, Joseph Cross, is a journalist. Flora is [[Jews|Jewish]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://jewogle.com/article/Entertainment/Actresses/2/ |title=Flora Cross |publisher=Jewogle |date=1993-01-11 |accessdate=2012-10-07}}</ref><ref>[http://www.interfaithfamily.com/arts_and_entertainment/popular_culture/Interfaith_Celebrities_Santas_Jewish_Family_and_Margot_at_the_Weddings_Near-Minyan.shtml Interfaith Family: "Interfaith Celebrities: Santa's Jewish Family, and Margot at the Wedding's Near-Minyan" By Nate Bloom] November 22, 2007</ref> She has traveled extensively with her family, most recently back to France to finish her degree. She graduated from La Sorbonne where she received her BA in Socologie. She currently resides in Jacmel, Haiti where she is a teacher. Her two brothers are also actors ([[Eli Marienthal]] and [[Harley Cross]]). Cross attended French schools since childhood ([[Lycée français de New York]]), and speaks French, Spanish and English fluently. During high school, she switched to the American school system and attended a private school in [[Westside (Los Angeles County)|Los Angeles' Westside]]. She graduated from New Roads School in 2012. She attended Sarah Lawrence for a year and is currently in California attending West Los Angeles College and plans to transfer to University of California Los Angeles where she plans on becoming a teacher.
Cross was born in [[Paris]], [[France]]. Her father, Joseph Cross, is a journalist. Flora is [[Jews|Jewish]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://jewogle.com/article/Entertainment/Actresses/2/ |title=Flora Cross |publisher=Jewogle |date=1993-01-11 |accessdate=2012-10-07 |archive-date=2019-12-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191229061425/http://jewogle.com/article/Entertainment/Actresses/2 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>Bloom, Nate. [http://www.interfaithfamily.com/arts_and_entertainment/popular_culture/Interfaith_Celebrities_Santas_Jewish_Family_and_Margot_at_the_Weddings_Near-Minyan.shtml Interfaith Family: "Interfaith Celebrities: Santa's Jewish Family, and Margot at the Wedding's Near-Minyan"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170923125446/http://www.interfaithfamily.com/arts_and_entertainment/popular_culture/Interfaith_Celebrities_Santas_Jewish_Family_and_Margot_at_the_Weddings_Near-Minyan.shtml |date=2017-09-23 }} November 22, 2007</ref> She has traveled extensively with her family, most recently back to France to finish her degree. She graduated from La Sorbonne where she received her BA in Sociology. She currently resides in Jacmel, Haiti where she is a teacher. Her two brothers are also actors ([[Eli Marienthal]] and [[Harley Cross]]). Cross attended French schools since childhood ([[Lycée français de New York]]), and speaks French, Spanish and English fluently. During high school, she switched to the American school system and attended a private school in [[Westside (Los Angeles County)|Los Angeles' Westside]]. She graduated from New Roads School in 2012. She graduated from La Sorbonne in 2016 and then moved to Haiti. She has three kids. She is a Montessori teacher as well, as a soap maker. She has a small business called Yaquimel Savon.


== Acting career ==
== Acting career ==
Cross played the lead role of Eliza in the 2005 film ''[[Bee Season (film)|Bee Season]]'', opposite [[Richard Gere]], [[Juliette Binoche]] and [[Max Minghella]]. She auditioned for the part shortly before moving to Argentina, where she was living when offered the role. "My manager sent the tape in, and then I was called in for an audition that was very long and very tiring," recalls the actor. "It went on for five hours. Two weeks later I was told I got the part".<ref name="az">[http://img.azcentral.com/ent/movies/articles/1117floracross1117.html ]{{dead link|date=October 2012}}</ref>
Cross played the lead role of Eliza in the 2005 film ''[[Bee Season (film)|Bee Season]]'', opposite [[Richard Gere]], [[Juliette Binoche]] and [[Max Minghella]]. She auditioned for the part shortly before moving to Argentina, where she was living when offered the role. "My manager sent the tape in, and then I was called in for an audition that was very long and very tiring," recalls the actor. "It went on for five hours. Two weeks later I was told I got the part".<ref name="az">[http://img.azcentral.com/ent/movies/articles/1117floracross1117.html ]{{dead link|date=October 2012}}</ref>


Her next role was playing the eccentric daughter of [[Jennifer Jason Leigh]]'s character in director [[Noah Baumbach]]'s ''[[Margot at the Wedding]]''. She worked alongside actors such as [[Nicole Kidman]], [[Jack Black]], [[John Turturro]], and fellow teen actor [[Zane Pais]].
Her next role was playing the eccentric daughter of [[Jennifer Jason Leigh]]'s character in director [[Noah Baumbach]]'s ''[[Margot at the Wedding]]''. She worked alongside actors such as [[Nicole Kidman]], [[Jack Black]], & [[John Turturro]].


Cross plays the co-starring role of Cynthia in the film "Chlorine", written and directed by Jay Alaimo. The film also stars [[Kyra Sedgwick]] and [[Vincent D'Onofrio]] as Cynthia's troubled parents, and [[Ryan Donowho]] as her eccentric brother.
Cross co-starred in ''Chlorine'', written and directed by [[Jay Alaimo]]. The film also stars [[Kyra Sedgwick]] and [[Vincent D'Onofrio]] as Cynthia's troubled parents, and [[Ryan Donowho]] as her eccentric brother.

== Reviews ==
"The performance by Flora Cross is haunting in its seriousness. She doesn't act out; she acts in. " Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun TImes<ref name="rogerebert">{{Cite web|url=http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051106/PEOPLE/511060301|title='Bee' girl carries film {{!}} Interviews {{!}} Roger Ebert|last=Ebert|first=Roger|website=rogerebert.suntimes.com|language=en|access-date=2017-06-05}}</ref>

"When FLORA CROSS landed her first role in 2005's ''Bee Season'', it was alongside Hollywood heavyweights like [[Richard Gere]] and [[Juliette Binoche]]. For her role in ''[[Margot At The Wedding]]'', an off-color domestic dramedy directed by [[Noah Baumbach]] (''The Squid And The Whale''), Cross shares screen-time with [[Nicole Kidman]], [[Jennifer Jason Leigh]] and [[Jack Black]]. Not too shabby for a 14-year-old, huh?"<ref>[http://www.altpress.com/screening/64.htm ] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081121005316/http://www.altpress.com/screening/64.htm |date=November 21, 2008 }}</ref>

"With the help of clear direction and some excellent acting, especially from Flora Cross in a memorable debut as Eliza, ''Bee Season'' is affecting in ways that movies have all but given up trying to be." Kenneth Turan, The Los Angeles Times<ref>{{cite web|last=Kaufman |first=Amy |url=http://www.calendarlive.com/movies/turan/cl-et-bee11nov11,0,5519925.story |title=Entertainment - entertainment, movies, tv, music, celebrity, Hollywood - latimes.com - latimes.com |publisher=Calendarlive.com |date= |accessdate=2012-10-07}}</ref>

"The beating heart of the Naumann family is Eliza (the wonderful Flora Cross), a doleful beauty with bottomless eyes that flutter closed whenever she spells out a word. "
Manohla Dargis, The New York Times<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/11/movies/11bee.html?_r=1 |title=God Spells? School Champion Puts Cabala Theory to the Test|newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |accessdate=2012-10-07}}{{subscription required}}</ref>

"Flora Cross blooms in ''Season'' " JANE STEVENSON - Toronto Sun <ref>{{cite web|url=http://jam.canoe.ca/Movies/Artists/C/Cross_Flora/2005/11/10/1300119.html |title=CANOE - JAM! Movies - Artists - Cross, Flora : Flora Cross blooms in Season |publisher=Jam.canoe.ca |date=2005-11-10 |accessdate=2012-10-07}}</ref>

Flora Cross is featured in ''[[Teen Vogue]]'s'' Young Hollywood Issue.<ref>{{cite web|last=Waterman |first=Lauren |url=http://www.teenvogue.com/industry/2007/09/younghollywood?slide=7 |title=Young Hollywood |publisher=TeenVogue.com |date= |accessdate=2012-10-07}}</ref>

Her first brush with the public eye occurred as an infant, when she appeared in ''[[Vogue Bambini]]''.


== Filmography ==
== Filmography ==
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! Year !! Title !! Character
! Year !! Title !! Character
|-
|-
| 2005 || [[Bee Season (film)|Bee Season]] || Eliza
| 2005 || ''[[Bee Season (film)|Bee Season]]'' || Eliza
|-
| 2007 || ''[[Margot At The Wedding]]'' || Ingrid
|-
|-
| 2007 || [[Margot At The Wedding]] || Ingrid
| 2013 || ''[[Chlorine (2013 film)|Chlorine]]'' || Cynthia
|-
|-
| 2013 || [[Chlorine (2013 film)|Chlorine]] || Cynthia
| 2017 || ''[[Boarding School (2017 film)|Boarding School]]'' || Destiny Wallace
|}
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! Year !! Awards !! Group !! Film !! Result
! Year !! Awards !! Group !! Film !! Result
|-
|-
| [[2005 in film|2005]] || [[Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards]] || Best Young Actress || [[Bee Season (film)|Bee Season]] || {{nom}}
| [[2005 in film|2005]] || [[Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards]] || Best Young Actress || ''[[Bee Season (film)|Bee Season]]'' || {{nom}}
|-
|-
| [[2006 in film|2006]] || [[Critics' Choice Movie Awards|Critics' Choice Award]] || Best Young Actress || [[Bee Season (film)|Bee Season]] || {{nom}}
| [[2006 in film|2006]] || [[Critics' Choice Movie Awards|Critics' Choice Award]] || Best Young Actress || ''[[Bee Season (film)|Bee Season]]'' || {{nom}}
|-
|-
| [[2007 in film|2007]] || [[Gotham Award]] || Best Ensemble Cast || [[Margot At The Wedding]] || {{nom}}
| [[2007 in film|2007]] || [[Gotham Award]] || [[Gotham Independent Film Award for Best Ensemble Cast|Best Ensemble Cast]] || ''[[Margot At The Wedding]]'' || {{nom}}
|}
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[[Category:French emigrants to the United States]]
[[Category:French Jews]]
[[Category:21st-century French Jews]]
[[Category:Jewish American actresses]]
[[Category:Jewish American actresses]]
[[Category:Lycée Français de New York alumni]]
[[Category:Lycée Français de New York alumni]]
[[Category:21st-century American Jews]]

Latest revision as of 20:35, 19 July 2023

Flora Cross
Born (1993-01-11) January 11, 1993 (age 31)
Paris, France
OccupationActress

Flora Cross (born January 11, 1993) is a French-American actress.

Personal life

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Cross was born in Paris, France. Her father, Joseph Cross, is a journalist. Flora is Jewish.[1][2] She has traveled extensively with her family, most recently back to France to finish her degree. She graduated from La Sorbonne where she received her BA in Sociology. She currently resides in Jacmel, Haiti where she is a teacher. Her two brothers are also actors (Eli Marienthal and Harley Cross). Cross attended French schools since childhood (Lycée français de New York), and speaks French, Spanish and English fluently. During high school, she switched to the American school system and attended a private school in Los Angeles' Westside. She graduated from New Roads School in 2012. She graduated from La Sorbonne in 2016 and then moved to Haiti. She has three kids. She is a Montessori teacher as well, as a soap maker. She has a small business called Yaquimel Savon.

Acting career

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Cross played the lead role of Eliza in the 2005 film Bee Season, opposite Richard Gere, Juliette Binoche and Max Minghella. She auditioned for the part shortly before moving to Argentina, where she was living when offered the role. "My manager sent the tape in, and then I was called in for an audition that was very long and very tiring," recalls the actor. "It went on for five hours. Two weeks later I was told I got the part".[3]

Her next role was playing the eccentric daughter of Jennifer Jason Leigh's character in director Noah Baumbach's Margot at the Wedding. She worked alongside actors such as Nicole Kidman, Jack Black, & John Turturro.

Cross co-starred in Chlorine, written and directed by Jay Alaimo. The film also stars Kyra Sedgwick and Vincent D'Onofrio as Cynthia's troubled parents, and Ryan Donowho as her eccentric brother.

Filmography

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Year Title Character
2005 Bee Season Eliza
2007 Margot At The Wedding Ingrid
2013 Chlorine Cynthia
2017 Boarding School Destiny Wallace

Awards

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Year Awards Group Film Result
2005 Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards Best Young Actress Bee Season Nominated
2006 Critics' Choice Award Best Young Actress Bee Season Nominated
2007 Gotham Award Best Ensemble Cast Margot At The Wedding Nominated

References

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  1. ^ "Flora Cross". Jewogle. 1993-01-11. Archived from the original on 2019-12-29. Retrieved 2012-10-07.
  2. ^ Bloom, Nate. Interfaith Family: "Interfaith Celebrities: Santa's Jewish Family, and Margot at the Wedding's Near-Minyan" Archived 2017-09-23 at the Wayback Machine November 22, 2007
  3. ^ [1][dead link]
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