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Glen Hansard (born 21 April 1970 in Dublin, Ireland) is the Academy Award–winning principal songwriter and vocalist/guitarist for Irish group The Frames and one half of folk rock duo, The Swell Season. He is also known for his acting, having appeared in the BAFTA winning film The Commitments, as well as starring in the film Once.
His song "Falling Slowly" from Once, co-written with Markéta Irglová, won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 2007, and earned him ten other major nominations or awards between 2007 and 2008.
Hansard quit school at age 13 to begin busking on local... MORE
Glen Hansard (born 21 April 1970 in Dublin, Ireland) is the Academy Award–winning principal songwriter and vocalist/guitarist for Irish group The Frames and one half of folk rock duo, The Swell Season. He is also known for his acting, having appeared in the BAFTA winning film The Commitments, as well as starring in the film Once.
His song "Falling Slowly" from Once, co-written with Markéta Irglová, won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 2007, and earned him ten other major nominations or awards between 2007 and 2008.
Hansard quit school at age 13 to begin busking on local Dublin streets. He formed The Frames in 1990, and they've been staples of the Irish music scene ever since. Their first album, Another Love Song, was released on Island Records in 1991, and their most recent, The Cost, was released in 2006.
He first came to international attention as guitar player Outspan Foster in the 1991 Alan Parker film The Commitments, after attending the New York Film Academy School of Acting. He has often stated that he regretted taking the role, because he felt it distracted him from his music career.
In 2003, he presented the television programme Other Voices: Songs from a Room, LESS
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