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).
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Gender
Female
Birthday
1942-04-24
Place of birth
Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York, USA
Meet the Fockers
2004
6.25
The Way We Were
1973
6.90
Yentl
1983
6.70
The Prince of Tides
1991
6.64
Streisand: The Concerts
2009
0.00
What's Up, Doc?
1972
7.37
For Pete's Sake
1974
5.60
Barbra Streisand: One Voice
1986
7.60
Citizen Steve
1987
5.88
Nuts
1987
6.30
I Love Liberty
1982
0.00
Hello, Dolly!
1969
7.00
The Main Event
1979
5.20
Up the Sandbox
1972
5.78
Live at Mister Kelly's
2021
0.00
The Owl and the Pussycat
1970
6.20
Funny Girl
1968
7.20
Funny Lady
1975
5.20
Little Fockers
2010
5.66
A Star Is Born
1976
6.01
The Guilt Trip
2012
5.61
Streisand: Live in Concert 2006
2009
7.50
A Happening in Central Park
1968
7.64
All Night Long
1981
5.20
Bella!
2023
0.00
The Belle of 14th Street
1967
6.80
David Foster: Off the Record
2019
7.00
Rona Barrett Looks at 1978
1979
0.00
Disclosure
2020
7.94
Together in Pride: You Are Not Alone
2020
10.00
Barbra: The Concert
1994
10.00
Sinatra: 80 Years My Way
1995
0.00
Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend
2022
7.40
Mike Wallace Is Here
2019
6.50
The Mirror Has Two Faces
1996
6.72
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
2022
6.60
Sidney
2022
7.50
Color Me Barbra
1966
8.00
My Name Is Barbra
1965
8.17
The Earth Day Special
1990
7.57
Fight of the Century
1971
0.00
Hamilton's America
2016
6.80
Judy Garland Duets
2005
0.00
Barbra: Back to Brooklyn
2013
8.25
Six by Sondheim
2013
7.10
Bergman: A Year in a Life
2018
7.40
Singer Presents Burt Bacharach
1971
0.00
Funny Girl to Funny Lady
1975
2.00
The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful
1996
10.00
And the Oscar Goes To...
2014
6.99
Directed by William Wyler
1986
0.00
Sid & Judy
2019
7.43
Paul Williams Still Alive
2011
6.79
The Way We Were: Looking Back
1999
9.40
Siempre, Luis
2020
6.30
Babenco: Tell Me When I Die
2020
7.00
We Are the World 25 For Haiti
2010
7.00
A Bob Hope Comedy Special
1963
0.00
Palme
2012
7.64
Funny Girl: Barbra Streisand
2024
0.00
Trailers Schmailers
2002
0.00