| Mao's Last Dancer | |||||
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| Drama | |||||
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| Bruce Greenwood | Ben Stevenson | |
| Kyle MacLachlan | Charles Foster | |
| Joan Chen | Niang | |
| Chi Cao | Li Cunxin - as an adult | |
| Amanda Schull | Elizabeth Mackey | |
| Shuangbao Wang | Dia | |
| Chengwu Guo | Li Cunxin - as a teenager | |
| Wen Bin Huang | Li Cunxin - as a child | |
| Aden Young | Dilworth | |
| Madeleine Eastoe | Lori | |
| Camilla Vergotis | Mary McKendry | |
| Penne Hackforth-Jones | Cynthia Dodds | |
| Jack Thompson | US Federal Judge | |
| Christopher Kirby | Mason | |
| Suzie Steen | Betty Lou |
| Director | Bruce Beresford
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| Producer | Jane Scott
Sue MacKay |
| Writer | Jan Sardi
Cunxin Li |
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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. |
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