Mao’s Last Dancer

Mao’s Last Dancer (Before you can fly, you have to be free.)

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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Top Cast

Amanda Schull

As Elizabeth Mackey

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

Kyle MacLachlan

As Charles Foster

Jack Thompson

As US Federal Judge

Camilla Vergotis

As Mary McKendry

Madeleine Eastoe

As Lori

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