Richard E. Grant

Nominated: Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in any Motion PictureIn Can You Ever Forgive Me? directed by Marielle Heller (Diary of a Teenage Girl), British actor Richard E. Grant plays Jack Hock, the best friend and accomplice to Lee Israel (Melissa McCarthy), a writer of biographies and forger.

Melissa McCarthy takes a dramatic turn playing real life author Lee Israel, who after a series of best-selling biographies fell on hard times and took drastic and illegal measures to make money by using her talents to forge letters from deceased writers like Dorothy Parker. Her partner in crime was the very flamboyant friend, Jack Hock (played by Richard E.