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2001 film by Thomas Carter
Save the Last Dance is a 2001 American dance film, directed by Thomas Carter. It stars Julia Stiles and Sean Patrick Thomas as a teenage interracial couple in Chicago who work together to help Stiles' character train for a Juilliard School dance audition. It was produced by MTV Films.
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Sean Patrick Thomas is an American actor. He is best known for his role as Derek Reynolds in the 2001 film Save the Last Dance and as Jimmy James in Barbershop (2002), Barbershop 2: Back in Business (2004), and Barbershop: The Next Cut (2016), as well as his television role as Detective Temple Page in The District and as Professor Macalester in Vixen (2015–2016).
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American actress (born 1981)
Julia O'Hara Stiles is an American actress and director. Stiles began acting at the age of 11 as part of New York's La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club. Her film debut was a small role at age 15 in I Love You, I Love You Not (1996), followed by a lead role in Wicked (1998) for which she received the Karlovy Vary Film Festival Award for Best Actress. Stiles co-starred in the made-for-TV mini-series The '60s (1999) as a teenage daughter in a middle-class American family from Chicago.
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American star delighted ‘Save the Last Dance’ fans with reunion after 25 years
Thomas made a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it cameo during Stiles and Ezra Sosa’s hip-hip inspired jazz routine.