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| Date of birth  = {{Date of birth|1983|10|3}}<ref name=IAFD>[{{IAFD|danecross|m}} IAFD: Dane Cross]</ref>

| Place of birth = San Francisco, California, United States<ref name=IAFD/>

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| Ethnicity      = German/Greek<ref name=IAFD/>

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'''Dane Cross''' (born October 3, 1983) is an American porn star.

== Early life ==

Cross was born in San Francisco, California and he is of German and Greek descent.<ref name=IAFD/> Growing up, his father was a "very right-wing" Republican, who worked as a police officer for thirty-three years, and his mother was a Democrat.<ref name=PornLifeMagazine>[https://web.archive.org/web/20121117202043/http://pornlifemagazine.com/issue/august-2012/article/casual-conversation-with-dane-cross Casual Conversation with Dane Cross]</ref> He is himself an Independent.<ref name=LadiezNight>[https://web.archive.org/web/20101227075246/http://www.ladieznight.com/157/dane-cross-exclusive-interview/ Dane Cross- Exclusive Interview]</ref> His parents were together for about twenty-five years before getting divorced when he was in his early teens, which made him feel depressed and miss school.<ref name=PornLifeMagazine/> He then began to purposely skip school just to view internet porn and had to be held a year back.<ref name=PornLifeMagazine/> He said doing so inadvertently trained to ejaculate on command and avoid ejaculating for long periods of time for his career.<ref name=PornLifeMagazine/> He initially lived with his mother before moving in with his father, who enrolled him in a private Christian middle school.<ref name=PornLifeMagazine/> Around 2000, he moved back in with his mother and on March 5, 2001, witnessed a shooting at his school.<ref name=PornLifeMagazine/> He was in photography class at the time and claims to have taken pictures of the shooting as it happened due to his interest in news, journalism, and film.<ref name=PornLifeMagazine/>

Although Cross had initially enrolled in the delayed entry referral program to be a military police officer for the Army, he received a health waiver for having a perforated tube in his eardrum.<ref name=PornLifeMagazine/> He instead attended the Brooks Institute of Photography in Ventura, California.<ref name=PornLifeMagazine/> All throughout college, he would shoot news footage of incidents he was made aware of by listening to the police scanner, then sell it to television stations as a part-time job.<ref name=PornLifeMagazine/> He also worked at a television station in San Diego for year before getting into porn.<ref name=PornLifeMagazine/> He lost that job due to his lifestyle of partying and experimenting with drugs, such as ecstasy, at the time.<ref name=PornLifeMagazine/> Shortly before getting into porn, he had severe panic disorder, for which he has been hospitalized.<ref name=LadiezNight/>

Cross entered the porn industry in 2007.<ref>[http://www.xbiz.com/news/112419/dane-cross-appearing-on-rudetv-tonight Dane Cross Appearing on RudeTV Tonight]</ref> He started out doing amateur porn with his girlfriend at the time after finding a Craigslist ad looking for couples.<ref name=PornLifeMagazine/> In July 2009, he joined LA Direct Models after leaving his previous agency, [[A-List Talent]], on good terms.<ref name=LADirectModels>[https://avn.com/business/press-release/video/dane-cross-joins-la-direct-models-354018.html Dane Cross Joins LA Direct Models]</ref> He made his directorial debut with ''Tosh Porn.Oh'' in 2011.<ref>[http://www.xbiz.com/news/137822/dane-cross-makes-directorial-debut-with-tosh-pornoh Dane Cross Makes Directorial Debut With 'Tosh Porn.Oh']</ref>

== Mainstream work ==

In early 2009, Cross directed his first music video for the band Anavan and shot the pilot of a travel series in Europe, which features him backpacking from one famous hostel to another.<ref>[https://avn.com/business/press-release/video/Dane-Cross-Cast-in-Mainstream-Role-352837.html Dane Cross Cast in Mainstream Role]</ref><ref>[https://avn.com/business/press-release/video/dane-cross-in-high-demand-311568.html Dane Cross in High Demand]</ref> Later that year, he directed his second music video, which features a softcore lesbian tryst between Faye Reagan and Georgia Jones, for the band Captain Ahab.<ref>[https://avn.com/business/press-release/video/dane-cross-becomes-a-duke-of-hazzard-gets-new-look-367191.html Dane Cross Becomes a Duke (of Hazzard), Gets New 'Look']</ref> Also in 2009, he landed a role in the Showtime series ''LOOK'' from director Adam Rifkin.<ref name=LADirectModels/> He was also one of the production assistants on Rifkin's Showtime series ''Reality Show''.<ref>[https://avn.com/business/articles/video/adult-stars-populate-adam-rifkin-s-new-showtime-series-492106.html Adult Stars Populate Adam Rifkin's New Showtime Series]</ref>

== Personal life ==

Cross is left-handed.<ref name=LadiezNight/> He was once in a relationship with Faye Reagan for three years.<ref name=PornLifeMagazine/>