Barbra Streisand
Acting
- Born:
- 1942-04-24
- Place of birth:
- Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York, USA
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
Funny Girl: Barbra Streisand
Bella!
Commitment to Life
Il était une fois Champs-Élysées
Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend
Sidney
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
Never Stop Dreaming: The Life and Legacy of Shimon Peres
Live at Mister Kelly's
Babenco: Tell Me When I Die
The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart
Disclosure
Together in Pride: You Are Not Alone
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound
David Foster: Off the Record
Mike Wallace Is Here
Sid & Judy
Bergman: A Year in a Life
Barbra: The Music ... The Mem'ries ... The Magic!
Barbra Streisand: Becoming an Icon 1942–1984
Hamilton's America
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Michael Buble's Christmas in New York
The Director's Chair
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Six by Sondheim
Barbra: Back to Brooklyn
Marvin Hamlisch: What He Did For Love
The Guilt Trip
Palme
Vito
A MusiCares Tribute To Barbra Streisand
Little Fockers
One Night Only: Barbra Streisand and Quartet at the Village Vanguard
Modern Family
Streisand: The Concerts
Streisand: Live in Concert 2006
Tony Bennett: Duets - The Making of an American Classic
Tony Bennett: An American Classic
The Howard Stern Interview
Judy Garland Duets
Streisand: Guilty Pleasures
Meet the Fockers
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs: America's Greatest Music in the Movies
Barbra Streisand: The Concert - Live at the MGM Grand
Barbra Streisand: The Movie Album
Real Time with Bill Maher
Hollywood Rocks the Movies: The 1970s
AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Barbra Streisand
Barbra Streisand: Timeless - Live in Concert
The Way We Were: Looking Back
The Music of Kander & Ebb: Razzle Dazzle
The Mirror Has Two Faces
The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful
Sinatra: 80 Years My Way
Inside the Actors Studio
Barbra: The Concert
Exclusiv - Das Star-Magazin
The Prince of Tides
Here's Looking At You, Warner Bros.
The Earth Day Special
Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
Nuts
Sacrée soirée
Citizen Steve
Barbra Streisand: One Voice
Directed by William Wyler
Putting It Together: The Making of the Broadway Album
Miami Vice
Yentl
I Love Liberty
Champs-Elysées
All Night Long
The Main Event
Rona Barrett Looks at 1978
Auf los geht's los
A Star Is Born
Saturday Night Live
Funny Lady
Funny Girl to Funny Lady
People's Choice Awards
For Pete's Sake
Barbra Streisand... and Other Musical Instruments
The Way We Were
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
Up the Sandbox
What's Up, Doc?
Le Grand Échiquier
Screwball Comedies... Remember Them?
Film '72
Singer Presents Burt Bacharach
Fight of the Century
The Owl and the Pussycat
On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
Hello, Dolly!
Funny Girl
A Happening in Central Park
This is Streisand
Barbra in Movieland
The Look of Funny Girl
The Belle of 14th Street
Color Me Barbra
[Untitled: #16]
My Name Is Barbra
Top of the Pops
The Judy Garland Show
A Bob Hope Comedy Special
The Merv Griffin Show
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
Tony Awards
The Oscars
The Bob Hope Show
What's My Line?
Golden Globe Awards
Untitled Barbra Streisand Documentary