Musician and actor Hansard starred in The Commitments and with his band The FramesMusician Glen Hansard onstage at the ASCAP Tribeca Music Lounge held at the Canal Room during the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival. Photograph: Getty Images Glen Hansard, the musician and actor best known for starring in The Commitments and Once, has died aged 56 following a motorcycle crash in Co Dublin.Hansard played Outspan Foster in the 1991 film The Commitments, while also performing with The Frames, then as part of the duo Swell Season, and also as a solo artist.The north Dublin artist, from Ballymun, won an Oscar in 2008 for the song Falling Slowly in Once, which he wrote with Markéta Irglová, his Swell Season partner.Hansard is survived by his wife, poet Maire Saaritsa, and his son.Glen Hansard starred in Once. Photo: Bryan O’Brien/The Irish Times Once won an Oscar for best original song for Falling Slowly, written and performed by Hansard and Markéta Irglová. Photo: Bryan O’Brien/The Irish Times Glen Hansard photographed in The Irish Times studio in December 2007, the year of the release of Once. Photo: Bryan O’Brien/The Irish Times Glen Hansard and John Carney were both in The Frames. Photo: Bryan O’Brien/The Irish Times Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival for Once. Photo: Fred Hayes Glen Hansard on guitar and vocals for rock band The Frames at The Borderline, London, 2001. Photo: Richard Ecclestone/Redferns The Frames performs at Coachella in 2007, California. Photo: Frazer Harrison/Getty Glen Hansard on stage at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York City, 2007. Photo: Brad Barket/Getty for Tribeca Film Festival Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová win the Academy Award for best original song in 2008. Photo: Michael Caulfield/WireImage The Frames: Glen Hansard and his bandmates Leonard Cohen and Glen Hansard of the Swell Season performing at the Choice Music awards at Dublin's Vicar Street in 2010. Photo: Alan Betson Glen Hansard of the Swell Season at Dublin's Vicar Street. Photo: Alan Betson Glen Hansard photographed among thousands at a water charges protest in Dublin, 2014. Photo: Brenda Fitzsimons/The Irish Times Imelda May and Glen Hansard performing at the annual busk on Dublin's Grafton street in aid of the Simon Community in 2024.