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
Golden Globe Awards
Golden Globe Awards
Golden Globe Awards
Golden Globe Awards
Real Time with Bill Maher
Miami Vice
Top of the Pops
What's My Line?
Champs-Elysées
Champs-Elysées
The Merv Griffin Show
Sacrée Soirée
The Bob Hope Show
People's Choice Awards
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
Sidney
Meet the Fockers
Le Grand Échiquier
Bella!
Palme
Hello, Dolly!
Up the Sandbox
Untitled Barbra Streisand Documentary
Funny Girl
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
Citizen Steve
Screwball Comedies... Remember Them?
Auf los geht's los
Little Fockers
Funny Lady
The Way We Were
Color Me Barbra
Exclusiv - Das Star-Magazin
Barbra Streisand: The Movie Album
Il était une fois Champs-Élysées
Directed by William Wyler
The Howard Stern Interview
Six by Sondheim
Yentl
The Guilt Trip
Judy Garland Duets
For Pete's Sake
The Mirror Has Two Faces
Disclosure
Streisand: The Concerts
The Judy Garland Show
Nuts
The Prince of Tides
A Star Is Born
The Director's Chair
The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart
Funny Girl to Funny Lady
Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music
I Love Liberty
What's Up, Doc?
My Name Is Barbra
Live at Mister Kelly's
Inside the Actors Studio
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound
Hamilton's America
The Earth Day Special
Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs: America's Greatest Music in the Movies
On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
Sid & Judy
The Main Event
Babenco: Tell Me When I Die
Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
All Night Long
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
The Owl and the Pussycat
David Foster: Off the Record
Tony Bennett: An American Classic
Bergman: A Year in a Life
Barbra Streisand: One Voice
Mike Wallace Is Here
Sinatra: 80 Years My Way
Fight of the Century
Together in Pride: You Are Not Alone
Never Stop Dreaming: The Life and Legacy of Shimon Peres
Putting It Together: The Making of the Broadway Album
Barbra Streisand: Becoming an Icon 1942–1984
Funny Girl: Barbra Streisand
One Night Only: Barbra Streisand and Quartet at the Village Vanguard
A MusiCares Tribute To Barbra Streisand
Marvin Hamlisch: What He Did For Love
Rona Barrett Looks at 1978
Hollywood Rocks the Movies: The 1970s
Barbra Streisand: The Concert - Live at the MGM Grand
Here's Looking At You, Warner Bros.
Tony Bennett: Duets - The Making of an American Classic
Barbra Streisand: Timeless - Live in Concert
Singer Presents Burt Bacharach
Barbra: The Music ... The Mem'ries ... The Magic!
Streisand: Live in Concert 2006
The Music of Kander & Ebb: Razzle Dazzle
The Way We Were: Looking Back
Michael Buble's Christmas in New York
8 Husbands
The Belle of 14th Street
A Bob Hope Comedy Special
Streisand: Guilty Pleasures
Barbra: Back to Brooklyn
Barbra Streisand... and Other Musical Instruments
A Happening in Central Park
[Untitled: #16]
Barbra: The Concert
