Ahead of kicking off its 34th edition in London tomorrow, the Raindance Film Festival has announced it will award Golden Globe-winning actor Brian Cox with a Raindance Icon Award.
The Scottish actor joins Miriam Margolyes and studio head Lloyd Kaufman as award recipients in this edition, with the late American musician Eddie Cochran also due to be honored with a posthumous award on the festival’s closing night ahead of the screening of Kirsty Bell’s “Eddie Cochran: Don’t Forget Me.”
Cox’s Raindance Icon Award will be presented by Oscar-nominated director Jim Sheridan, who directed the actor in the 1997 drama “The Boxer.” In the film, Cox starred alongside Daniel Day-Lewis and Emily Watson, playing Joe Hamill, a high-ranking figure in the IRA. Cox’s decades-spanning career includes films such as “Rushmore,” “The Ring,” “Troy,” “Fantastic Mr. Fox,” “Rise of the Planet of the Apes” and “Churchill.” The actor rose in success in the last few years thanks to his performance as Logan Roy in HBO’s hit show “Succession,” which earned him a Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Drama Series.
The actor is also a stage veteran, having won two Best Actor Olivier Awards for “Titus Andronicus” for the Royal Shakespeare Company and “Rat in the Skull” for the Royal Court. He has written three books, plus his autobiography.
