Barbra Streisand

Female
April 24, 1942

Barbara Joan 'Barbra' Streisand 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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Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music
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movie2025United States
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Funny Girl: Barbra Streisand
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movie2024United States
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Bella!
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movie2023United States
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Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend
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movie2022France
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Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
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movie2022United States
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Sidney
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movie2022United States
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Live at Mister Kelly's
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movie2021United States
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Babenco: Tell Me When I Die
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movie2020Brazil
Character: Self (archive footage)Credit: Acting
The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart
7.60
movie2020United States
Character: Self (archive footage/photos)Credit: Acting
Disclosure
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movie2020United States
Character: Yentl (archive footage)Credit: Acting
Together in Pride: You Are Not Alone
6.90
movie2020United States
Character: SelfCredit: Acting
Siempre, Luis
6.90
movie2020United States
Character: Self (archive footage)Credit: Acting
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound
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movie2019United States
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David Foster: Off the Record
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movie2019United StatesCanada
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Mike Wallace Is Here
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movie2019United States
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Sid & Judy
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movie2019United States
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Bergman: A Year in a Life
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movie2018Sweden
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Never Stop Dreaming: The Life and Legacy of Shimon Peres
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movie2018United States
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Barbra: The Music ... The Mem'ries ... The Magic!
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movie2017United States
Character: SelfCredit: Acting, Director, Executive Producer, Writer
Barbra Streisand: Becoming an Icon 1942–1984
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movie2017France
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