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
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Amanda Schull
Played Elizabeth Mackey
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Chi Cao
Played Li Cunxin - adult
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Chengwu Guo
Played Li Cunxin - teenage
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Wen Bin Huang
Played Li Cunxin - boy
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Joan Chen
Played Niang
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Bruce Greenwood
Played Ben Stevenson
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Kyle MacLachlan
Played Charles Foster
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Jack Thompson
Played US Federal Judge
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Camilla Vergotis
Played Mary McKendry
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Madeleine Eastoe
Played Lori
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Steven Heathcote
Played Bobby Cordner
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Aden Young
Played Dilworth
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Wang Shuangbao
Played
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Barbara Bush
Played Herself (archive foo…
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George H. W. Bush
Played Himself (archive foo…
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Mao Zedong
Played Himself (archive foo…
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Bruce Greenwood
Played
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Kip Gamblin
Played David
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George Ellis
Played Houston Ballet Condu…
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