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).

Filmography

• 2024Funny Girl: Barbra Streisand — Narrator
• 2024Song to Woody: Greenwich Village, the Folk Revival, and Bob Dylan — Music
• 2020Disclosure — Yentl (archive footage)
• 2019Mike Wallace Is Here — (archive footage)
• 2017Barbra: The Music ... The Mem'ries ... The Magic! — Self, Executive Producer, Writer, Director
• 2013Barbra: Back to Brooklyn — Self, Executive Producer, Director, Writer
• 2012The Guilt Trip — Joyce Brewster, Executive Producer
• 2010Little Fockers — Rozalin Focker
• 2010One Night Only: Barbra Streisand and Quartet at the Village Vanguard — Performer
• 2009Streisand: Live in Concert 2006 — Self, Director
• 2004Barbra Streisand: The Concert - Live at the MGM Grand — Self, Director, Producer, Writer
• 2004Meet the Fockers — Rozalin Focker
• 2003Barbra Streisand: The Movie Album — Barbra Streisand
• 2002Hollywood Rocks the Movies: The 1970s — Esther Hoffman (archive footage)
• 2001Barbra Streisand: Timeless - Live in Concert — Herself, Producer, Director, Writer
• 2001Varian's War — Executive Producer
• 2001What Makes a Family — Executive Producer
• 2000Frankie & Hazel — Executive Producer
• 1998Rescuers: Stories of Courage - Two Couples — Executive Producer
• 1998Rescuers: Stories of Courage - Two Families — Executive Producer
• 1998The Long Island Incident — Executive Producer
• 1997My Brother's War — Creative Consultant
• 1997Rescuers: Stories of Courage - Two Women — Executive Producer
• 1996The Mirror Has Two Faces — Rose Morgan, Director, Producer, Theme Song Performance, Music Supervisor
• 1995Serving in Silence - The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story — Executive Producer
• 1994Barbra: The Concert — Self, Director
• 1991The Prince of Tides — Susan Lowenstein, Director, Producer
• 1988On s'est tous défilé — Music
• 1987Nuts — Claudia Draper, Producer, Original Music Composer
• 1986Barbra Streisand: One Voice — Self - Performer, Writer
• 1986Putting It Together: The Making of the Broadway Album — Self, Director
• Miami Vice — Pedestrian (uncredited)
• 1983Yentl — Yentl, Screenplay, Director, Producer
• 1981All Night Long — Cheryl Gibbons
• 1979The Main Event — Hillary Kramer, Producer
• 1978Eyes of Laura Mars — Theme Song Performance
• 1976A Star Is Born — Esther Hoffman, Songs, Executive Producer
• 1975Funny Lady — Fanny Brice
• 1974For Pete's Sake — Henrietta 'Henry' Robbins
• 1973Barbra Streisand... and Other Musical Instruments — Self, Music
• 1973The Way We Were — Katie Morosky
• 1972Up the Sandbox — Margaret Reynolds
• 1972What's Up, Doc? — Judy Maxwell
• 1970On a Clear Day You Can See Forever — Daisy Gamble
• 1970The Owl and the Pussycat — Doris
• 1969Hello, Dolly! — Dolly Levi
• 1968A Happening in Central Park — Performer
• 1968Barbra in Movieland
• 1968Funny Girl — Fanny Brice
• 1968The Look of Funny Girl
• 1968This is Streisand
• 1967The Belle of 14th Street — Performer
• 1966Color Me Barbra — Performer
• 1966[Untitled: #16]
• 1965My Name Is Barbra — Performer
• 1963A Bob Hope Comedy Special — Performer
• Catherine the Great — Director
• Untitled Barbra Streisand Documentary

Appearances as themselves (72)

• 2025Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music — Self (archive footage)
• 2023Bella! — Self
• 2023Commitment to Life — Self (archive footage)
• 2022Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend — Self (archive footage)
• Il était une fois Champs-Élysées — Self (archive footage)
• 2022Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues — Self (archive footage)
• 2022Never Stop Dreaming: The Life and Legacy of Shimon Peres — Self
• 2022Sidney — Self
• 2021Live at Mister Kelly's — Self
• 2020Babenco: Tell Me When I Die — Self (archive footage)
• 2020The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart — Self (archive footage/photos)
• 2020Together in Pride: You Are Not Alone — Self
• 2019David Foster: Off the Record — Self
• 2019Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound — Self
• 2019Sid & Judy — Self (archive footage)
• 2018Bergman: A Year in a Life — Self
• 2017Barbra Streisand: Becoming an Icon 1942–1984 — Self
• 2016Hamilton's America — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert — Self - Guest
• 2014Michael Buble's Christmas in New York — Herself
• The Director's Chair — Self
• The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon — Self
• 2013Marvin Hamlisch: What He Did For Love — Self
• 2013Six by Sondheim — Self (archive footage)
• 2012Palme — Self (archive footage)
• 2011A MusiCares Tribute To Barbra Streisand — Self - Honoree
• 2011Vito — Self (archive footage)
• Modern Family — Herself (voice)
• 2009Streisand: The Concerts — Self (archive footage)
• 2007Tony Bennett: Duets - The Making of an American Classic — Self
• The Howard Stern Interview — Self
• 2006Tony Bennett: An American Classic — Self
• 2005Judy Garland Duets — Self (archive footage)
• 2005Streisand: Guilty Pleasures — Self - vocal
• 2004AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs: America's Greatest Music in the Movies — Self
• Real Time with Bill Maher — Self
• 2001AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Barbra Streisand — self
• 1999The Way We Were: Looking Back — Self
• 1997The Music of Kander & Ebb: Razzle Dazzle — Self (archive footage)
• 1996The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful — Self (archive footage)
• 1995Sinatra: 80 Years My Way — Self - Presenter
• Exclusiv - Das Star-Magazin — self
• Inside the Actors Studio — Self
• 1991Here's Looking At You, Warner Bros. — Self
• 1990The Earth Day Special — Self
• 1988Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 1987Citizen Steve — Self - Actress / Singer
• Sacrée soirée — Self
• 1986Directed by William Wyler — Self
• Champs-Elysées — Self, Self (archive footage)
• 1982I Love Liberty — Self
• 1979Rona Barrett Looks at 1978 — Self
• Auf los geht's los — Self
• 1975Funny Girl to Funny Lady — Self
• People's Choice Awards — Self - Presenter
• Saturday Night Live — Self (uncredited)
• The American Film Institute Salute to ... — Self
• Le Grand Échiquier — Self
• 1972Screwball Comedies... Remember Them? — Self
• 1971Fight of the Century — Self-(Audience Member)
• Film '72 — Self
• 1971Singer Presents Burt Bacharach — Herself
• Top of the Pops — Self
• The Judy Garland Show — Self
• The Merv Griffin Show — Self
• The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson — Self
• Tonight Starring Jack Paar — Self
• Tony Awards — Self - Presenter, Self - Winner
• The Oscars — Self - Presenter
• The Bob Hope Show — Self
• What's My Line? — Self - Mystery Guest
• Golden Globe Awards — Self - Nominee, Self - Cecil B. DeMille Award Recipient, Self - Audience Member (uncredited), Self - Winner