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).
88 movies · 28 shows
Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music
2025·7.8
Funny Girl: Barbra Streisand
2024·0.0
Bella!
2023·0.0
Commitment to Life
2023·0.0
Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend
2022·7.3
Sidney
2022·7.0
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
2022·6.5
Never Stop Dreaming: The Life and Legacy of Shimon Peres
2022·6.5
Live at Mister Kelly's
2021·0.0
Babenco: Tell Me When I Die
2020·7.1
The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart
2020·7.6
Disclosure
2020·7.8
Together in Pride: You Are Not Alone
2020·10.0
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound
2019·6.9
David Foster: Off the Record
2019·7.0
Mike Wallace Is Here
2019·6.5
Sid & Judy
2019·7.4
Bergman: A Year in a Life
2018·7.4
Barbra: The Music ... The Mem'ries ... The Magic!
2017·7.1
Barbra Streisand: Becoming an Icon 1942–1984
2017·6.8
Hamilton's America
2016·6.6
Michael Buble's Christmas in New York
2014·0.0
Six by Sondheim
2013·7.1
Barbra: Back to Brooklyn
2013·8.2
Marvin Hamlisch: What He Did For Love
2013·9.0
The Guilt Trip
2012·5.6
Palme
2012·7.6
Vito
2011·6.9
A MusiCares Tribute To Barbra Streisand
2011·5.6
Little Fockers
2010·5.7
One Night Only: Barbra Streisand and Quartet at the Village Vanguard
2010·7.1
Streisand: The Concerts
2009·0.0
Streisand: Live in Concert 2006
2009·7.5
Tony Bennett: Duets - The Making of an American Classic
2007·0.0
Tony Bennett: An American Classic
2006·7.7
Judy Garland Duets
2005·0.0
Streisand: Guilty Pleasures
2005·0.0
Meet the Fockers
2004·6.3
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs: America's Greatest Music in the Movies
2004·8.3
Barbra Streisand: The Concert - Live at the MGM Grand
2004·8.1
Barbra Streisand: The Movie Album
2003·7.5
Hollywood Rocks the Movies: The 1970s
2002·10.0
AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Barbra Streisand
2001·9.0
Barbra Streisand: Timeless - Live in Concert
2001·8.3
The Way We Were: Looking Back
1999·9.2
The Music of Kander & Ebb: Razzle Dazzle
1997·7.0
The Mirror Has Two Faces
1996·6.7
The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful
1996·10.0
Sinatra: 80 Years My Way
1995·0.0
Barbra: The Concert
1994·9.0
The Prince of Tides
1991·6.6
Here's Looking At You, Warner Bros.
1991·6.8
The Earth Day Special
1990·6.1
Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
1988·6.0
Nuts
1987·6.3
Citizen Steve
1987·6.0
Barbra Streisand: One Voice
1986·7.6
Directed by William Wyler
1986·0.0
Putting It Together: The Making of the Broadway Album
1986·9.0
Yentl
1983·6.7
I Love Liberty
1982·0.0
All Night Long
1981·5.2
The Main Event
1979·5.3
Rona Barrett Looks at 1978
1979·0.0
A Star Is Born
1976·6.0
Funny Lady
1975·5.3
Funny Girl to Funny Lady
1975·6.0
For Pete's Sake
1974·5.8
Barbra Streisand... and Other Musical Instruments
1973·8.2
The Way We Were
1973·7.0
Up the Sandbox
1972·5.9
What's Up, Doc?
1972·7.4
Screwball Comedies... Remember Them?
1972·5.0
Singer Presents Burt Bacharach
1971·0.0
Fight of the Century
1971·0.0
The Owl and the Pussycat
1970·6.2
On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
1970·6.7
Hello, Dolly!
1969·7.0
Funny Girl
1968·7.2
A Happening in Central Park
1968·7.8
This is Streisand
1968·9.0
Barbra in Movieland
1968·7.0
The Look of Funny Girl
1968·0.0
The Belle of 14th Street
1967·7.0
Color Me Barbra
1966·8.0
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1966·0.0
My Name Is Barbra
1965·8.4
A Bob Hope Comedy Special
1963·10.0