Mao’s Last Dancer

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 falls 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.

Cast

Amanda Schull Elizabeth Mackey

Chi Cao Li Cunxin - adult

Chengwu Guo Li Cunxin - teenage

Wen Bin Huang Li Cunxin - boy

Joan Chen Niang

Bruce Greenwood Ben Stevenson

Kyle MacLachlan Charles Foster

Jack Thompson US Federal Judge

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