Mao's Last Dancer

Mao's Last Dancer (2024)

2024

Drama / Romance

6.9 from 10 with total 67 votes

2009-10-01

117 minutes

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.

Chi Cao character Li Cunxin - adult

Chengwu Guo character Li Cunxin - teenage

Wen Bin Huang character Li Cunxin - boy

Joan Chen character Niang

Bruce Greenwood character Ben Stevenson

Amanda Schull character Elizabeth Mackey

Kyle MacLachlan character Charles Foster

Jack Thompson character US Federal Judge

Camilla Vergotis character Mary McKendry

Madeleine Eastoe character Lori

Steven Heathcote character Bobby Cordner

Aden Young character Dilworth

Barbara Bush character Herself (archive footage) (uncredited)

George H. W. Bush character Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)

Mao Zedong character Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)

Kip Gamblin character David