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.

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  Amanda Schull

  Elizabeth Mackey
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  Chi Cao

  Li Cunxin - adult
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  Joan Chen

  Niang
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  Bruce Greenwood

  Ben Stevenson
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  Kyle MacLachlan

  Charles Foster
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  Jack Thompson

  US Federal Judge
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  Steven Heathcote

  Bobby Cordner
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  Aden Young

  Dilworth
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  Wang Shuangbao
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  Barbara Bush

  Herself (archive footage) (uncredited)