Irish musician and actor Glen Hansard dies at 56 after a motorcycle crash in the Dublin area, multiple outlets report. Hansard is best known for starring in the 2007 musical film “Once,” for which he won an Academy Award for Best Original Song for “Falling Slowly,” alongside Marketa Irglova. Several reports describe him as the lead singer and frontman of the Irish rock band the Frames, a group he formed after emerging from Dublin’s busking scene.

BBC and other outlets say the crash was a single-vehicle incident. The Guardian reports the crash occurred in Lucan, on the outskirts of Dublin, and that local police treated him at the scene before he died shortly afterward. Deadline and Variety attribute his death to a statement from his management company.

Additional coverage includes tributes and acknowledgments of his wider public profile, with comments reported from prominent musicians and public figures after his death.