Mao’s Last Dancer

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.

• Bruce BeresfordDirector
• Jan SardiScreenplay
• Christopher GordonOriginal Music Composer

• Bruce GreenwoodBen Stevenson
• Kyle MacLachlanCharles Foster
• Joan ChenNiang
• Chi CaoLi Cunxin - adult
• Amanda SchullElizabeth Mackey
• Wang ShuangbaoDia
• Aden YoungDilworth
• Jack ThompsonJudge Woodrow Seals
• Penne Hackforth-JonesCynthia Dodds
• Chengwu GuoLi Cunxin - teenage
• Wen Bin HuangLi Cunxin - boy
• Madeleine EastoeLori