Known For
Acting
Born
Apr 24, 1942
Place of Birth
Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York, USA
Credits
130 titles
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
Filmography
Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music
Self (archive footage)
Funny Girl: Barbra Streisand
Narrator
Song to Woody: Greenwich Village, The Folk Revival, and Bob Dylan
Music
Bella!
Self
Commitment to Life
Self (archive footage)
Il était une fois Champs-Élysées
Self (archive footage)
Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend
Self (archive footage)
Sidney
Self
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
Self (archive footage)
Never Stop Dreaming: The Life and Legacy of Shimon Peres
Self
Live at Mister Kelly's
Self
Babenco: Tell Me When I Die
Self (archive footage)
The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart
Self (archive footage/photos)
Disclosure
Yentl (archive footage)
Together in Pride: You Are Not Alone
Self
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound
Self
David Foster: Off the Record
Self
Mike Wallace Is Here
(archive footage)
Sid & Judy
Self (archive footage)
Bergman: A Year in a Life
Self
Barbra: The Music ... The Mem'ries ... The Magic!
Self
Barbra Streisand: Becoming an Icon 1942–1984
Self
Hamilton's America
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self - Guest
Michael Buble's Christmas in New York
Herself
The Director's Chair
Self
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Self
Six by Sondheim
Self (archive footage)
Barbra: Back to Brooklyn
Self
Marvin Hamlisch: What He Did For Love
Self
The Guilt Trip
Joyce Brewster
Palme
Self (archive footage)
Vito
Self (archive)
A MusiCares Tribute To Barbra Streisand
Self - Honoree
Little Fockers
Rozalin Focker
One Night Only: Barbra Streisand and Quartet at the Village Vanguard
Performer
Modern Family
Herself (voice)
Streisand: The Concerts
Self (archive footage)
Streisand: Live in Concert 2006
Self
Tony Bennett: Duets - The Making of an American Classic
Self
Tony Bennett: An American Classic
Self
The Howard Stern Interview
Self
Judy Garland Duets
Self (archive footage)
Streisand: Guilty Pleasures
Self - vocal
Meet the Fockers
Rozalin Focker
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs: America's Greatest Music in the Movies
Self
Barbra Streisand: The Concert - Live at the MGM Grand
Self
Barbra Streisand: The Movie Album
Barbra Streisand
Real Time with Bill Maher
Self
Hollywood Rocks the Movies: The 1970s
Esther Hoffman (archive footage)