Mao’s Last Dancer

    Mao’s Last Dancer
    2009

    Synopsis

    At the age of 11, Li was plucked from a poor Chinese village by Madame Mao's cultural delegates and taken to Beijing to study ballet. In 1979, during a cultural exchange to Texas, he fell in love with an American woman. Two years later, he managed to defect and went on to perform as a principal dancer for the Houston Ballet and as a principal artist with the Australian Ballet.

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    Cast

    • Chi CaoLi Cunxin - adult
    • Chengwu GuoLi Cunxin - teenage
    • Wen Bin HuangLi Cunxin - boy
    • Joan ChenNiang
    • Bruce GreenwoodBen Stevenson
    • Amanda SchullElizabeth Mackey
    • Kyle MacLachlanCharles Foster
    • Jack ThompsonUS Federal Judge
    • Camilla VergotisMary McKendry
    • Madeleine EastoeLori

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