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Mao’s Last Dancer

Mao’s Last Dancer2009

★6.6117 minDramaRomance

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.

Director

Bruce Beresford

Writer

Jan Sardi Cunxin Li

Score

Christopher Gordon

Stars

Bruce Greenwood Kyle MacLachlan Joan Chen

Cast37

Bruce Greenwood
as Ben Stevenson
Kyle MacLachlan
as Charles Foster
Joan Chen
as Niang
Chi Cao
as Li Cunxin - adult
Amanda Schull
as Elizabeth Mackey
Wang Shuangbao
as Dia
Aden Young
as Dilworth
Jack Thompson
as Judge Woodrow Seals
Penne Hackforth-Jones
as Cynthia Dodds
C
Chengwu Guo
as Li Cunxin - teenage
W
Wen Bin Huang
as Li Cunxin - boy
M
Madeleine Eastoe
as Lori
C
Camilla Vergotis
as Mary McKendry
Steven Heathcote
as Bobby Cordner
Kip Gamblin
as David
Christopher Kirby
as Mason
Suzie Steen
as Betty Lou
Y
Yang Li
as Cunmao - 19 yrs
Ferdinand Hoang
as Consul Zhang
X
Xiguo Wu
as Director Wang
Jiao Gang
as Teacher Gao
Yue Xiuqing
as Madame Official
Alice Parkinson
as Assistant Stage Manager
Deni Hines
as Anita Jones
J
Jon-Claire Lee
as Vice Consul Lan
R
Robin Choi
as Security Guard
R
Ron Lee
as Security Guard
C
Cory Vi
as Security Guard
C
Chan Cheuk-Fai
as Security Guard
G
Gibson Nolte
as China Desk Officer
Ted Maynard
as Newsreader
N
Nicholas McKay
as TV Reporter
Nicholas Hammond
as TV Reporter
L
Leslie Bell
as TV Presenter
Ian Meadows
as WTC Backstage Manager
G
George Ellis
as Houston Ballet Conductor
Jane Harders
as Senator's Wife

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