Glen Hansard

Glen Hansard was an Irish musician and actor who busked on the streets of Dublin as a teenager and formed the rock band the Frames in 1990, fronting it across six studio albums, four of them making the Irish albums chart top ten. He drew international attention as the guitarist Outspan Foster in The Commitments (1991), and starred with Markéta Irglová in the musical drama Once (2007), for which the pair wrote the music; their song Falling Slowly won the 2008 Academy Award for Best Original Song, and the film became a stage musical. He played in the folk rock duo the Swell Season, formed in 2005, and released solo records such as Rhythm and Repose (2012) and Didn't He Ramble (2015), which earned a Grammy nomination for best folk album. He also appeared in the Golden Globe-nominated Cyrano (2021).