Czech Oscar winner Markéta Irglová pays quick visit to her homeland
The first Czech woman ever to win an Oscar, twenty-year old Markéta Irglová has come back to her homeland for a week-long visit. Irglová and her Irish partner Glen Hansard recently won an Academy Award for best original song for Falling Slowly from the low-budget film Once, about a busker and a Czech immigrant who meet on the streets of Dublin and become close as they compose music together. The twenty year old arrived without warning to spend time in private with her family before embarking on a tour of 25 American towns and cities with her partner Glen Hansard.