Marketa Irglova

ABOUT MARKETA IRGLOVA

Czech singer, songwriter, and actress who played a main role in the film Once alongside Glen Hansard . She and Hansard won an Academy Award in the Best Original Song category for the song "Falling Slowly" in Once.

She started taking piano lessons at age 8 and learned guitar at age 9.

She was a member of the band The Swell Season, with whom she released three albums.

She has a child with her partner, Sturla Mio Porisson.

Another public figure like her from the Czech Republic is tennis player Martina Navratilova .