Wikipedia:Giovanni Morassutti

Giovanni Enrico Morassutti (born March 15, 1980) is an Italian actor, director, writer, artist,  and cultural entrepreneur graduate of the Italian National film school  directed by Giancarlo Giannini. He is best known for having deepened the study of the realistic school of acting and to maintain the Strasberg's legacy.

Early life and education
Giovanni Morassutti was born and raised in Padua (Veneto, Italy). His mother is German and his father, Italian. After studying with Susan Strasberg, he moved to New York City at the age of 19 to become a professional actor. While being an auditor at the Actors Studio, he worked as a busboy and a bike messenger, attending the classes of Salem Ludwig at the HB Studio. In 2001 he met John Strasberg, son of Lee Strasberg, who later became his mentor, having written the foreword of the Italian version of his book in 2016. Morassutti graduated at the Italian National film school in 2007.

Career
Since 2001, Morassutti has played leading and supporting roles in Italian and international films presented at the Cineteca di Bologna, Cannes, Accademia del Cinema Italiano and the Downtown Urban Arts Festival including The Fugitive (2003 Policeman), Last days (2005 Band fan), I Viceré  (2007 Cantante Lirico - Romeo), Ventisette: Farsi guardare può essere appagante (2011, Marco),  (2013 Richard di Broglio), A Holy Venetian Family (2015 Ragazzo compro oro),   (2015 Juan) , ' (2017 Zeno), ' (2019 Salvo) working with Roberto Faenza, Gus Van Sant, Franco Giraldi, Riccardo Milani among others. His television roles include Il maresciallo Rocca e l'amico d'infanzia (2008), where Morassutti played Benedetto giovane (the younger version of the same character played by Giannini in the same production) as well as  (2012), where Morassutti played the role of Robert.

As a stage actor Morassutti worked with David Warren, Ellen Stewart at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, Ted Mornel at the Gene Frankel Theater, and Bryan Reynolds with the Transversal Theater Company. As director, Morassutti worked with Lydia Biondi in both Sola in casa (written by Dino Buzzati) presented at the Cherry Lane Theatre in 2012, as well as in Madre sin Pañuelo, a theatrical play based on the Dirty War.

Morassutti is the founder and artistic director of the international cultural center Art Aia-Creatives / In / Residence, in Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italy which fosters sustainability in the arts and cultural mobility. In 2016, Morassutti co-founded a Berlin location by the name of Art Aia - La Dolce Berlin. The Berlin location was formerly a Spätkauf. It was there that Morassutti began experimenting in painting as a visual artist.

Family
He is a member of the Morassutti family.