British actress Miriam Margolyes will receive this year’s Raindance Icon Award at the Raindance Film Festival, taking place in London between June 17-26.
Margolyes will receive her accolade at the festival’s opening gala on June 17 after the U.K. premiere of Michel Parandi’s “April X.”
Raindance will give two other Icon Awards this year: to American film director and co-founder of Troma Entertainment film studio Lloyd Kaufman and a posthumous award to American rock legend Eddie Cochran. Presented to Eddie’s sister and mother, the Icon Award is set to be displayed alongside his original Gretsch guitar and his other trophies at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio. Cochran is the subject of the festival’s closing film, Kirsty Bell’s “Eddie Cochran: Don’t Forget Me.”
Margolyes recently starred in Lee Knight’s “A Friend of Dorothy,” which started its journey at Raindance almost exactly a year ago and went on to have a successful festival run that culminated in an Oscar nomination for Best Live Action Short Film. Knight will be the one to present the actress with her award in what the festival describes as a “full circle moment.” “A Friend of Dorothy” sees Margolyes as a widow whose quiet life is upended when a teen (played by Alistair Nwachukwu) accidentally kicks his football into her garden, the two developing a tender bond over their shared loneliness.
