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

Bruce Greenwood

Bruce Greenwood

as Ben Stevenson

Kyle MacLachlan

Kyle MacLachlan

as Charles Foster

Joan Chen

Joan Chen

as Niang

Chi Cao

Chi Cao

as Li Cunxin - adult

Amanda Schull

Amanda Schull

as Elizabeth Mackey

Wang Shuangbao

Wang Shuangbao

as Dia

Aden Young

Aden Young

as Dilworth

Jack Thompson

Jack Thompson

as Judge Woodrow Seals

Penne Hackforth-Jones

Penne Hackforth-Jones

as Cynthia Dodds

Chengwu Guo

Chengwu Guo

as Li Cunxin - teenage

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