Barbra Streisand
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
112
Gender
Female
Birthday
1942-04-24 (83 years old)
Place of Birth
Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York, USA
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).
Known For
Modern Family
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Saturday Night Live
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Real Time with Bill Maher
Top of the Pops
Miami Vice
Golden Globe Awards
Golden Globe Awards
Golden Globe Awards
Golden Globe Awards
Tony Awards
Tony Awards
The Merv Griffin Show
Champs-Elysées
Champs-Elysées
Sacrée Soirée
What's My Line?
Exclusiv - Das Star-Magazin
The Mirror Has Two Faces
The Bob Hope Show
Le Grand Échiquier
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs: America's Greatest Music in the Movies
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
Meet the Fockers
Yentl
Bella!
Sidney
Disclosure
The Way We Were
Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
Sid & Judy
Babenco: Tell Me When I Die
Hello, Dolly!
Little Fockers
Together in Pride: You Are Not Alone
Palme
Auf los geht's los
The Guilt Trip
The Howard Stern Interview
The Prince of Tides
Funny Lady
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
Hamilton's America
Barbra Streisand: Becoming an Icon 1942–1984
A Star Is Born
Funny Girl
Nuts
Il était une fois Champs-Élysées
The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart
Bergman: A Year in a Life
Citizen Steve
Tony Bennett: An American Classic
What's Up, Doc?
Six by Sondheim
Tony Bennett: Duets - The Making of an American Classic
The Judy Garland Show
Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music
Barbra: Back to Brooklyn
A Happening in Central Park
Never Stop Dreaming: The Life and Legacy of Shimon Peres
I Love Liberty
The Owl and the Pussycat
A MusiCares Tribute To Barbra Streisand
All Night Long
For Pete's Sake
Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
Hollywood Rocks the Movies: The 1970s
Judy Garland Duets
The Way We Were: Looking Back
One Night Only: Barbra Streisand and Quartet at the Village Vanguard
The Main Event
The Music of Kander & Ebb: Razzle Dazzle
Untitled Barbra Streisand Documentary
The Director's Chair
Color Me Barbra
Barbra Streisand - Guilty / Guilty Pleasures
Directed by William Wyler
Up the Sandbox
Streisand: Live in Concert 2006
Barbra Streisand: Timeless - Live in Concert
Barbra Streisand: The Movie Album
Sinatra: 80 Years My Way
Michael Buble's Christmas in New York
My Name Is Barbra
Barbra Streisand: One Voice
Mike Wallace Is Here
Barbra Streisand... and Other Musical Instruments
Screwball Comedies... Remember Them?
Fight of the Century
8 Husbands
The Earth Day Special
Marvin Hamlisch: What He Did For Love
Streisand: The Concerts
A Bob Hope Comedy Special
Inside the Actors Studio
David Foster: Off the Record
Barbra: The Music ... The Mem'ries ... The Magic!
Live at Mister Kelly's
Barbra Streisand: The Concert - Live at the MGM Grand
Putting It Together: The Making of the Broadway Album
Funny Girl: Barbra Streisand
Funny Girl to Funny Lady
The Belle of 14th Street
Here's Looking At You, Warner Bros.
Rona Barrett Looks at 1978
Singer Presents Burt Bacharach
Barbra: The Concert
