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Mao's Last Dancer
1 hour 57 minutes2009-10-01
6.6
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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.
Cast
![Chi Cao](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//541lGZMpzQNOPDjW5qgf9t9LU2R.jpg)
Chi Cao
Li Cunxin - adult
![Chengwu Guo](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Chengwu Guo
Li Cunxin - teenage
![Wen Bin Huang](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Wen Bin Huang
Li Cunxin - boy
![Joan Chen](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//7uMTJpY8B2hufXqmlxJpaUPpcJi.jpg)
Joan Chen
Niang
![Bruce Greenwood](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//rVpyddWneBBYYzYhMRmWoHMg3Hg.jpg)
Bruce Greenwood
Ben Stevenson
![Amanda Schull](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//uXcKWYCGoDJilx3fCYBkUBSuQ2k.jpg)
Amanda Schull
Elizabeth Mackey
![Kyle MacLachlan](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//dNGPjhInyADHjiiYJAWsSUAIC7o.jpg)
Kyle MacLachlan
Charles Foster
![Jack Thompson](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//GeyiTMB48UEGo2cpCAbxrNZ6vj.jpg)
Jack Thompson
US Federal Judge
![Camilla Vergotis](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Camilla Vergotis
Mary McKendry
![Madeleine Eastoe](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Madeleine Eastoe
Lori
![Steven Heathcote](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Steven Heathcote
Bobby Cordner
![Aden Young](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//y7YoyvmNEJWZZP4UiDzPhz4zaPP.jpg)
Aden Young
Dilworth
![Wang Shuangbao](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//ur2MV5tZ6vBP02tJI4cAHy7skHh.jpg)
Wang Shuangbao
![Barbara Bush](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//grsdBIw5NK396AiRxRMM9G6vcqJ.jpg)
Barbara Bush
Herself (archive footage) (uncredited)
![George H. W. Bush](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//skB35M0jMrXfnY8mshwSh8ShCf0.jpg)
George H. W. Bush
Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
![Mao Zedong](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//nuQSpbdD2i4jvBDB0TnvoVbD493.jpg)
Mao Zedong
Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
![Bruce Greenwood](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//rVpyddWneBBYYzYhMRmWoHMg3Hg.jpg)
Bruce Greenwood
![Kip Gamblin](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//jPEKz2GpOYWfnEF0Xv4siGvGWxC.jpg)