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 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.
Drama, Romance
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Chi Cao as Li Cunxin - adult, Chengwu Guo as Li Cunxin - teenage, Wen Bin Huang as Li Cunxin - boy, Joan Chen as Niang, Bruce Greenwood as Ben Stevenson, Amanda Schull as Elizabeth Mackey, Kyle MacLachlan as Charles Foster, Jack Thompson as US Federal Judge, Camilla Vergotis as Mary McKendry, Madeleine Eastoe as Lori, Steven Heathcote as Bobby Cordner, Aden Young as Dilworth, Shuangbao Wang as 