36 years old (Born on February 28, 1988)
Czech actor-singer; She is famous from Once.
The orchestra cut her off right as she was to begin her Oscar acceptance speech after Glen Hansard gave his when they won Best Original Song at the 2008 Oscar Awards. The show's producer, Gil Cates, told Jon Stewart during commercial break to have Irglova come back out and in an Oscar first, be given a second chance to give her acceptance speech. Recorded the song "You Ain't Goin' Nowhere" with Glen Hansard for the I'm Not There soundtrack. Released an album with Glen Hansard in 2006 called "The Swell Season". Lived in Prague but moved to Dublin in 2008. Marku00e9ta has spent nearly half of her life in Ireland, so (unlike her character in Once (2006), who is supposed to be a recent immigrant) she has adopted an Irish dialect to some extent.Marketa Irglova's Best Moments
