
Barbra Streisand
Biography
Barbara Joan 'Barbra' Streisand (born April 24, 1942) is an American singer, actress and director. With a career spanning over six decades, she has achieved success in multiple fields of entertainment, and is among the few performers awarded an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony (EGOT).
With sales exceeding 150 million records worldwide, she is one of the best-selling recording artists of all time. According to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), she is the second highest-certified female artist in the United States, with 68.5 million certified album units. Billboard ranked her as the greatest female artist on the Billboard 200 chart and the top Adult Contemporary female artist of all time. Her accolades include two Academy Awards, 10 Grammy Awards including the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and the Grammy Legend Award, five Emmy Awards, four Peabody Awards, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and nine Golden Globes.
She began her career by performing in nightclubs and Broadway theaters in the early 1960s. Following her guest appearances on various television shows, she signed to Columbia Records, insisting that she retain full artistic control, and accepting lower pay in exchange, an arrangement that continued throughout her career, and released her debut The Barbra Streisand Album (1963), which won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year.
Throughout her recording career, she has topped the US Billboard 200 chart with 11 albums—a record for a woman—including People (1964), The Way We Were (1974), Guilty (1980), and The Broadway Album (1985). She also achieved five number-one singles on the US Billboard Hot 100—"The Way We Were", "Evergreen", "You Don't Bring Me Flowers", "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)", and "Woman in Love".
Following her established recording success in the 1960s, she ventured into film by the end of that decade. She starred in the critically acclaimed Funny Girl (1968), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. Additional fame followed with films including the extravagant musical Hello, Dolly! (1969), the screwball comedy What's Up, Doc? (1972), and the romantic drama The Way We Were (1973). She won a second Academy Award for writing the love theme from A Star Is Born (1976), the first woman to be honored as a composer.
With the release of Yentl (1983), she became the first woman to write, produce, direct, and star in a major studio film. The film won an Oscar for Best Score and a Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture Musical. She also received the Golden Globe Award for Best Director, becoming the first (and for 37 years, the only) woman to win that award. She later directed The Prince of Tides (1991) and The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996).
Acting (80 movies)

Meet the Fockers
2004

The Way We Were
1973

Yentl
1983

The Prince of Tides
1991

Streisand: The Concerts
2009

What's Up, Doc?
1972

For Pete's Sake
1974

Barbra Streisand: One Voice
1986

Citizen Steve
1987

Nuts
1987

I Love Liberty
1982

Hello, Dolly!
1969

The Main Event
1979

Up the Sandbox
1972

Live at Mister Kelly's
2021

The Owl and the Pussycat
1970

On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
1970

Funny Girl
1968

Here's Looking At You, Warner Bros.
1991

Funny Lady
1975

Hollywood Rocks the Movies: The 1970s
2002

Little Fockers
2010

A Star Is Born
1976

The Guilt Trip
2012

Barbra Streisand: Timeless - Live in Concert
2001

Streisand: Live in Concert 2006
2009

A Happening in Central Park
1968

One Night Only: Barbra Streisand and Quartet at the Village Vanguard
2010

All Night Long
1981

Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
1988

Bella!
2023

Screwball Comedies... Remember Them?
1972

A MusiCares Tribute To Barbra Streisand
2012

Tony Bennett: An American Classic
2006

Barbra Streisand: The Concert - Live at the MGM Grand
2004

The Belle of 14th Street
1967

David Foster: Off the Record
2019

Marvin Hamlisch: What He Did For Love
2013

Rona Barrett Looks at 1978
1979

The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart
2020

Barbra Streisand - Guilty / Guilty Pleasures
2005

Never Stop Dreaming: The Life and Legacy of Shimon Peres
2022

Disclosure
2020

Together in Pride: You Are Not Alone
2020

Barbra: The Concert
1994

Michael Buble's Christmas in New York
2014

Sinatra: 80 Years My Way
1995

Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend
2022

Mike Wallace Is Here
2019

The Mirror Has Two Faces
1996

Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
2022

Sidney
2022

Tony Bennett: Duets - The Making of an American Classic
2007

Barbra Streisand... and Other Musical Instruments
1973

My Name Is Barbra
1965

Color Me Barbra
1966

The Earth Day Special
1990

Fight of the Century
1971

Hamilton's America
2016

Judy Garland Duets
2005

Barbra Streisand: Becoming an Icon 1942–1984
2017

Barbra: Back to Brooklyn
2013

Barbra: The Music ... The Mem'ries ... The Magic!
2017

Six by Sondheim
2013

Putting It Together: The Making of the Broadway Album
1986

Bergman: A Year in a Life
2018

Singer Presents Burt Bacharach
1971

Barbra Streisand: The Movie Album
2003

Funny Girl to Funny Lady
1975

The Music of Kander & Ebb: Razzle Dazzle
1997

Directed by William Wyler
1986

Sid & Judy
2019

Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound
2019

The Way We Were: Looking Back
1999

Babenco: Tell Me When I Die
2020

A Bob Hope Comedy Special
1963

AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs: America's Greatest Music in the Movies
2004

Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music
2025

Palme
2012

Funny Girl: Barbra Streisand
2024
Directing (9 movies)

Yentl
1983

The Prince of Tides
1991

The Mirror Has Two Faces
1996

Barbra Streisand: Timeless - Live in Concert
2001

Streisand: Live in Concert 2006
2009

Putting It Together: The Making of the Broadway Album
1986

Barbra: The Music ... The Mem'ries ... The Magic!
2017

Barbra Streisand: The Concert - Live at the MGM Grand
2004

Barbra: Back to Brooklyn
2013