Yang Li

Movie - 2007, 2h 15m • as Mr. Sun

A glamorous Hong Kong performer struggles to make a home in suburban 1960s Australia.

Movie - 2009, 2h 15m • as Cunmao - 19 yrs

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.