Mao’s Last Dancer (2010)

08/20/2010 1h 57m

Before you can fly, you have to be free.

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Overview

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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Cast Ages at Release

Joan Chen

as Niang

Born 04/26/1961, age

Bruce Greenwood

as Ben Stevenson

Born 08/12/1956, age

Amanda Schull

as Elizabeth Mackey

Born 08/26/1978, age

Kyle MacLachlan

as Charles Foster

Born 02/22/1959, age

Jack Thompson

as US Federal Judge

Born 08/31/1940, age

Aden Young

as Dilworth

Born 11/30/1971, age

George H. W. Bush

as Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)

Born 06/12/1924

Died 11/30/2018, age

Bruce Greenwood

Born 08/12/1956, age