Miriam Margolyes to Receive Raindance Icon Award, Reveals Feature Plans for Oscar-Nominated Short ‘A Friend of Dorothy’: ‘There Is Room to Expand’ (EXCLUSIVE)

Jun 10, 2026 4:24am PT Miriam Margolyes to Receive Raindance Icon Award, Reveals Feature Plans for Oscar-Nominated Short ‘A Friend of Dorothy’: ‘There Is Room to Expand’ (EXCLUSIVE)

Other honorees include studio head Lloyd Kaufman and the late American rockstar Eddie Cochran, who will be honored with a posthumous award

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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.”

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