Morassi first appeared on the television series
Neighbours in 1996. She would later appear in
BeastMaster,
Stingers and
The Secret Life of Us in the early 2000s before making the transition to films in 2002 alongside an all-star cast including
Bryan Brown,
Toni Collette,
Sam Neill,
Sam Worthington, and
John Goodman in
Dirty Deeds which saw her nominated for a Best Supporting Actor award by the
Film Critics Circle of Australia. She played backpacker Kristy Earl, for which she was nominated for an
Australian Film Institute award for Best Supporting Actress 2005. She also starred in the Patrick Hughes short film
Signs for Schweppes opposite Nick Russell. In recent work, Morassi played whip-cracking brothel manager Natalie in Foxtel's groundbreaking drama
Satisfaction and portrays sultry and infatuated criminal defence lawyer
Zarah Garde-Wilson in the
Nine Network TV drama series
Underbelly. In 2010, she had a guest appearance on
Wilfred, playing "Kat". Morassi joined the cast of
Seven Network soap opera
Home and Away in 2017 as
Maggie Astoni. She departed in July 2020, along with
Rohan Nichol who plays her on-screen husband
Ben Astoni. In 2020 Morassi returned to the big screen in paranormal horror
Surrogate alongside Jane Badler. Morassi plays Natalie Paxton, a nurse and single mother, who falls mysteriously ill and struggles to save her family from being destroyed.
Surrogate premiered April 6th 2022 at
Sun Theatre, Yarraville, Australia for a limited 4 week theatrical run where it was number 1, 2 weeks running.
Surrogate was released internationally in September 2022 on
TubiTV and
Amazon Prime. ==Filmography==