- He is also the artistic director of Art Aia- Creatives/ In/ Residence which is a cultural center, a creative residency, located inside a farm in the Friulian countryside of Northern Italy. Art Aia pursues exclusively cultural and artistic activities, guided by the idea that art can help to overcome the limitations and barriers place to communication still today, which in a way reduce imagination and creativity. In 2015 Giovanni opened a space in Berlin, Germany which is becoming one of the most exciting alternative location for contemporary art, culture, authentic Italian food, and Aperitifs. Art Aia - La Dolce Berlin is a presentation space, a Pop-up Gallery that offers space to artists from around the world to collaborate and visit Berlin for a while.
- Italian film critic Concita Occhipinti was moved to say: "Morassutti is a particular actor with masterful vocal and acting abilities and he is very close to Giancarlo Giannini since he studied with him at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia".
- The South-american Journalist and theatre critic Ernesto Pérez saw him capture the essence of a tense drama: "In staging Madre sin Panuelo the young Morassutti demonstrates his gift of enlivening a claustrophobic scene".
- The director Vito Pagano was gushing in his praise when he said: "Giovanni Morassutti as the leading actor in my movie Amigdala performed the miracle. In the long shot monologue he gave me what I wanted. Actually he gave me a better performance than i had imagined".
- He is the first male cousin of German martial arts master and actor Benjamin Piwko .
- He lived in Paris for half a year.
- Even if he is Italian he does not follow soccer.
- While living in New York City he worked as a busboy and a bike messenger.
- He is the son of Sabine Piwko and Benedetto Morassutti, who is a photographer and sculptor. His father was born in Saccolongo, Padova, Veneto, Italy. His mother was born in Paderborn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, to a father from Katowice, Poland and a mother from Silesia.
- He considers acting a transformative art form.
- Played younger version of the same character played by Giancarlo Giannini in tv series Il maresciallo Rocca e l'amico d'infanzia (2008).
- Favourite playwrights Anton Chekhov , Tennessee Williams , Eduardo De Filippo , Eugene O'Neill and William Shakespeare.
- His parents divorced when he was 4.
- He has suffered from depression and gone to therapy.
- He is also an experimental contemporary artist. He realized a video artwork in 2017: "Ribolla" which is part of a collection based on pairing wine with art.
- He has won the Premio Tor Vergata for Railroad directed by Bryan Reynolds at the XXVIII Festival Internazionale del Teatro Patologico, Rome, Italy, 2020.
- Winner of The Empty Space Film Festival 2020 as best supporting actor in Lola directed by Francesca Tasini.
- He is a representative of Method acting.
- He studied with Lina Wertmüller at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia.
- He studied with Susan Strasberg at the age of 16.
- While at the Actors Studio in NewYork he observed and audited the sessions directed by Estelle Parsons, Lee Grant, Eli Wallach and Arthur Penn among others.
- At age 20 he moved to New York with Italian director Filippo Meneghetti.
- In 2020 he created an online exhibition about the Lee Strasberg Legacy on Google Arts & Culture.
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