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