Mao's Last Dancer
2009 · 1 hr 57 min
PG7.356%77%67%
A drama based on the autobiography by Li Cunxin. 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.
Cast of Mao's Last Dancer
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
Steven HeathcoteBobby Cordner
Aden YoungDilworth
Barbara BushHerself (archive footage) (uncredited)
George H.W. BushHimself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Mao ZedongHimself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Kip GamblinDavid
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