Mao’s Last Dancer (2009)
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 GreenwoodBen Stevenson
Kyle MacLachlanCharles Foster
Joan ChenNiang
Chi CaoLi Cunxin - adult
Amanda SchullElizabeth Mackey
Wang ShuangbaoDia
Aden YoungDilworth
Jack ThompsonJudge Woodrow Seals
Penne Hackforth-JonesCynthia DoddsChengwu GuoLi Cunxin - teenageWen Bin HuangLi Cunxin - boyMadeleine EastoeLoriCamilla VergotisMary McKendry
Steven HeathcoteBobby Cordner
Kip GamblinDavid
