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Giacomo Baessato is the Canadian actor who portrays Grif on ABC's Once Upon a Time.
Biography
Giacomo Baessato hails from Vancouver, Canada.[1] He is of Italian and Irish descent, and has an older brother named Max.[2]
He started acting when he was eight years old, when his parents enrolled him in acting classes at a local Film/TV school.[3] He made his acting debut in an episode of the American-Canadian Disney Channel series So Weird in 1999,[4] while first film role was a minor part in the 2000 horror comedy film Scary Movie.[3] He later voiced the character Enzo Matrix on the Canadian CGI-animated action-adventure television series ReBoot.[5]
At thirteen years old, he landed a part in the 2003 science fiction horror film Dreamcatcher,[5] written and directed by Lawrence Kasdan, who co-wrote the screenplays for Raiders of the Lost Ark and three of the Star Wars movies. After graduating high school, Giacomo went on to train at the Circle in the Square Theater School in New York City. He lived in New York for three years, doing mostly stage work.[5]
He has appeared in several famous TV shows over the years, including Motive, The X Files, Continuum, The 100, Supernatural, Arrow, The Whispers, Wayward Pines,Travelers and Fringe.[4] He also played the recurring roles of Shane Slater on the supernatural drama television series The Returned,[4] Officer Kearn in the crime drama television series Gracepoint[6] and Russ Roche on the fourth season of the television series iZombie.[7]
Trivia
- Before landing the role as Grif, Giacomo played Rip Van Winkle in a deleted scene from "Nasty Habits".[8]
- Acts opposite fellow Once Upon a Time actors Rose McIver and David Anders in the iZombie episode "Are You Ready for Some Zombies?", where Giacomo plays a suspect in a murder that Rose's character, Liv Moore, is investigating. He also shares scene with McIver in the episode "You've Got to Hide Your Liv Away".
Appearances
| Once Upon a Time: Season Five | |||||||||||
| "The Dark Swan": | "The Price": | "Siege Perilous": | "The Broken Kingdom": | "Dreamcatcher": | "The Bear and the Bow": | "Nimue": | "Birth": | "The Bear King": | "Broken Heart": | "Swan Song": | |
| Absent | Absent | Appears | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | |
| "Souls of the Departed": | "Labor of Love": | "Devil's Due": | "The Brothers Jones": | "Our Decay": | "Her Handsome Hero": | "Ruby Slippers": | "Sisters": | "Firebird": | "Last Rites": | "Only You": | "An Untold Story": |
| Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent |
External links
Giacomo Baessato on Internet Movie Database- @giacomo.baessato (Giacomo Baessato) on Facebook
- @giaco_bae (Giacomo Baessato) on Instagram
- @GiacomoBaessato (Giacomo Baessato) on X, formerly Twitter
