Barbra Streisand
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).
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Movies (102)
Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music
2025 · Self (archive footage)
Funny Girl: Barbra Streisand
2024 · Narrator
Song to Woody: Greenwich Village, the Folk Revival, and Bob Dylan
2024 · Music
Bella!
2023 · Self
Commitment to Life
2023 · Self (archive footage)
Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend
2022 · Self (archive footage)
El gran legado de Sidney Poitier
2022 · Self
Louis Armstrong: Black & Blues
2022 · Self (archive footage)
Never Stop Dreaming: The Life and Legacy of Shimon Peres
2022 · Self
Live at Mister Kelly's
2021 · Self
Babenco: Tell Me When I Die
2020 · Self (archive footage)
The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart
2020 · Self (archive footage/photos)
Disclosure: Ser trans más allá de la pantalla
2020 · Yentl (archive footage)
Together in Pride: You Are Not Alone
2020 · Self
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound
2019 · Self
David Foster: Off the Record
2019 · Self
Mike Wallace Is Here
2019 · (archive footage)
Sid & Judy
2019 · Self (archive footage)
Bergman: A Year in a Life
2018 · Self
Barbra: The Music ... The Mem'ries ... The Magic!
2017 · Self, Writer, Executive Producer, Director
Barbra Streisand: Becoming an Icon 1942–1984
2017 · Self
Hamilton's America
2016 · Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Michael Buble's Christmas in New York
2014 · Herself
Sondheim En Seis Canciones
2013 · Self (archive footage)
Barbra: Back to Brooklyn
2013 · Self, Writer, Executive Producer, Director
Marvin Hamlisch: What He Did For Love
2013 · Self
A toda madre
2012 · Joyce Brewster, Executive Producer
Palme
2012 · Self (archive footage)
Vito
2011 · Self (archive footage)
A MusiCares Tribute To Barbra Streisand
2011 · Self - Honoree
Los pequeños Focker
2010 · Rozalin Focker
One Night Only: Barbra Streisand and Quartet at the Village Vanguard
2010 · Performer
Streisand: The Concerts
2009 · Self (archive footage)
Streisand: Live in Concert 2006
2009 · Self, Director
Tony Bennett: Duets - The Making of an American Classic
2007 · Self
Tony Bennett: An American Classic
2006 · Self
Judy Garland Duets
2005 · Self (archive footage)
Streisand: Guilty Pleasures
2005 · Self - vocal
Los fockers: La familia de mi esposo
2004 · Rozalin Focker
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs: America's Greatest Music in the Movies
2004 · Self
Barbra Streisand: The Concert - Live at the MGM Grand
2004 · Self, Producer, Writer, Director
Barbra Streisand: The Movie Album
2003 · Barbra Streisand
Hollywood Rocks the Movies: The 1970s
2002 · Esther Hoffman (archive footage)
Varian's War
2001 · Executive Producer
AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Barbra Streisand
2001 · self
Barbra Streisand: Timeless - Live in Concert
2001 · Herself, Writer, Producer, Director
Una Verdadera Familia
2001 · Executive Producer
Frankie & Hazel
2000 · Executive Producer
The Way We Were: Looking Back
1999 · Self
Rescuers: Stories of Courage - Two Couples
1998 · Executive Producer
The Long Island Incident
1998 · Executive Producer
Rescuers: Stories of Courage - Two Families
1998 · Executive Producer
The Music of Kander & Ebb: Razzle Dazzle
1997 · Self (archive footage)
Rescuers: Stories of Courage - Two Women
1997 · Executive Producer
My Brother's War
1997 · Creative Consultant
El amor tiene dos caras
1996 · Rose Morgan, Director, Producer, Theme Song Performance, Music Supervisor
The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful
1996 · Self (archive footage)
Sinatra: 80 Years My Way
1995 · Self - Presenter
Serving in Silence - The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story
1995 · Executive Producer
Barbra: The Concert
1994 · Self, Director
The Prince of Tides
1991 · Susan Lowenstein, Director, Producer
Here's Looking At You, Warner Bros.
1991 · Self
The Earth Day Special
1990 · Self
Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
1988 · Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
On s'est tous défilé
1988 · Music
Nuts
1987 · Claudia Draper, Original Music Composer, Producer
Citizen Steve
1987 · Self - Actress / Singer
Barbra Streisand: One Voice
1986 · Self - Performer, Writer
Directed by William Wyler
1986 · Self
Putting It Together: The Making of the Broadway Album
1986 · Self, Director
Yentl
1983 · Yentl, Screenplay, Producer, Director
I Love Liberty
1982 · Self
All Night Long
1981 · Cheryl Gibbons
The Main Event
1979 · Hillary Kramer, Producer
Rona Barrett Looks at 1978
1979 · Self
Eyes of Laura Mars
1978 · Theme Song Performance
A Star Is Born
1976 · Esther Hoffman, Songs, Executive Producer
Funny Lady
1975 · Fanny Brice
Funny Girl to Funny Lady
1975 · Self
For Pete's Sake
1974 · Henrietta 'Henry' Robbins
Barbra Streisand... and Other Musical Instruments
1973 · Self, Music
The Way We Were
1973 · Katie Morosky
Up the Sandbox
1972 · Margaret Reynolds
What's Up, Doc?
1972 · Judy Maxwell
Screwball Comedies... Remember Them?
1972 · Self
Singer Presents Burt Bacharach
1971 · Herself
Fight of the Century
1971 · Self-(Audience Member)
The Owl and the Pussycat
1970 · Doris
On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
1970 · Daisy Gamble
Hello, Dolly!
1969 · Dolly Levi
Funny Girl
1968 · Fanny Brice
A Happening in Central Park
1968 · Performer
This is Streisand
1968
Barbra in Movieland
1968
The Look of Funny Girl
1968
The Belle of 14th Street
1967 · Performer
Color Me Barbra
1966 · Performer
[Untitled: #16]
1966
My Name Is Barbra
1965 · Performer
A Bob Hope Comedy Special
1963 · Performer
Untitled Barbra Streisand Documentary
Catherine the Great
· Director
TV shows (28)
Il était une fois Champs-Élysées
2022 · Self (archive footage)
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015 · Self - Guest
The Director's Chair
2014 · Self
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014 · Self
Una Familia Moderna
2009 · Herself (voice)
The Howard Stern Interview
2006 · Self
Real Time with Bill Maher
2003 · Self
Inside the Actors Studio
1994 · Self
Exclusiv - Das Star-Magazin
1994 · self
Sacrée soirée
1987 · Self
Miami Vice
1984 · Pedestrian (uncredited)
Champs-Elysées
1982 · Self, Self (archive footage)
Auf los geht's los
1977 · Self
Saturday Night Live
1975 · Self (uncredited)
People's Choice Awards
1975 · Self - Presenter
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
1973 · Self
Le Grand Échiquier
1972 · Self
Film '72
1971 · Self
Top of the Pops
1964 · Self
The Judy Garland Show
1963 · Self
The Merv Griffin Show
1962 · Self
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962 · Self
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
1957 · Self
Tony Awards
1956 · Self - Presenter, Self - Winner
The Oscars
1953 · Self - Presenter
The Bob Hope Show
1950 · Self
What's My Line?
1950 · Self - Mystery Guest
Golden Globe Awards
1944 · Self - Nominee, Self - Cecil B. DeMille Award Recipient, Self - Audience Member (uncredited), Self - Winner