Barbra Streisand

Known for ActingBorn 1942-04-24 (age 84)Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York, USA

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).Read more

Movies & web series

Together in Pride: You Are Not Alone

Hollywood Rocks the Movies: The 1970s

A Bob Hope Comedy Special

The Way We Were: Looking Back

Marvin Hamlisch: What He Did For Love

AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Barbra Streisand

People's Choice Awards

Barbra: The Concert

Putting It Together: The Making of the Broadway Album

This is Streisand

Rescuers: Stories of Courage - Two Women

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

Barbra Streisand: Timeless - Live in Concert

Barbra: Back to Brooklyn

Barbra Streisand: The Concert - Live at the MGM Grand

My Name Is Barbra

Disclosure

Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music

Modern Family

Rescuers: Stories of Courage - Two Families

Barbra Streisand... and Other Musical Instruments

The Judy Garland Show

The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart

Auf los geht's los

Tony Bennett: An American Classic

Palme

Le Grand Échiquier

Color Me Barbra

Streisand: Live in Concert 2006

Sid & Judy

Bergman: A Year in a Life

Inside the Actors Studio

The Howard Stern Interview

Barbra Streisand: The Movie Album

A Happening in Central Park

Sidney

Barbra Streisand: One Voice

Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend

Babenco: Tell Me When I Die

Miami Vice

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

Six by Sondheim

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

David Foster: Off the Record

The Director's Chair

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

What's Up, Doc?

Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound