Barbra Streisand

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Born: April 24, 1942
From: Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York, USA
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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).

Works

89 films

Meet the Fockers

20046.3

Little Fockers

20105.7

The Way We Were

19737.0

Hello, Dolly!

19697.0

The Guilt Trip

20125.6

Funny Girl

19687.2

The Prince of Tides

19916.6

Sidney

20227.0

What's Up, Doc?

19727.4

The Mirror Has Two Faces

19966.7

A Star Is Born

19766.0

Funny Lady

19755.3

The Owl and the Pussycat

19706.2

Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound

20196.9

Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues

20226.5

Yentl

19836.7

Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music

20257.8

On a Clear Day You Can See Forever

19706.7

Disclosure

20207.8

Six by Sondheim

20137.1

Commitment to Life

2023

Citizen Steve

19876.0

Barbra Streisand: One Voice

19867.6

Nuts

19876.3

Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend

20227.3

Directed by William Wyler

1986

The Earth Day Special

19906.1

Sid & Judy

20197.4

The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart

20207.6

The Main Event

19795.3

Barbra Streisand: Becoming an Icon 1942–1984

20176.9

For Pete's Sake

19745.8

Bergman: A Year in a Life

20187.4

Tony Bennett: An American Classic

20067.7

Up the Sandbox

19725.9

All Night Long

19815.2

The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful

199610.0

Here's Looking At You, Warner Bros.

19916.8

Barbra Streisand: The Concert - Live at the MGM Grand

20048.1

Judy Garland Duets

2005

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

20177.1

Sinatra: 80 Years My Way

1995

Live at Mister Kelly's

2021

Singer Presents Burt Bacharach

1971

I Love Liberty

1982

Tony Bennett: Duets - The Making of an American Classic

2007

Together in Pride: You Are Not Alone

202010.0

Barbra Streisand: The Movie Album

20037.5

Mike Wallace Is Here

20196.5

Fight of the Century

1971

Rona Barrett Looks at 1978

1979

Screwball Comedies... Remember Them?

19725.0

Color Me Barbra

19668.0

Marvin Hamlisch: What He Did For Love

20139.0

Palme

20127.6

Hamilton's America

20166.6

Funny Girl to Funny Lady

19756.0

Vito

20116.9

Putting It Together: The Making of the Broadway Album

19869.0

My Name Is Barbra

19658.4

Babenco: Tell Me When I Die

20207.1

David Foster: Off the Record

20197.0

[Untitled: #16]

1966

Barbra: The Concert

19949.0

A MusiCares Tribute To Barbra Streisand

20115.6

Barbra Streisand: Timeless - Live in Concert

20018.3

Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC

19886.0

The Music of Kander & Ebb: Razzle Dazzle

19977.0

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

20048.3

Streisand: Live in Concert 2006

20097.5

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

20107.1

AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Barbra Streisand

20019.0

A Bob Hope Comedy Special

196310.0

The Belle of 14th Street

19677.0

A Happening in Central Park

19687.8

Hollywood Rocks the Movies: The 1970s

200210.0

The Way We Were: Looking Back

19999.2

Michael Buble's Christmas in New York

2014

Bella!

2023

Streisand: The Concerts

2009

Funny Girl: Barbra Streisand

2024

Streisand: Guilty Pleasures

2005

Never Stop Dreaming: The Life and Legacy of Shimon Peres

20226.5

Barbra Streisand... and Other Musical Instruments

19738.2

This is Streisand

19689.0

Untitled Barbra Streisand Documentary

2026

Barbra: Back to Brooklyn

20138.2

The Look of Funny Girl

1968

Barbra in Movieland

19687.0