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Barbra Streisand
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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…
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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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BODY OF WORK
Barbra Streisand's Filmography
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Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music
as Self (archive footage)
Funny Girl: Barbra Streisand
as Narrator
Bella!
as Self
Commitment to Life
as Self (archive footage)
Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend
as Self (archive footage)
Sidney
as Self
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
as Self (archive footage)
Never Stop Dreaming: The Life and Legacy of Shimon Peres
as Self
Live at Mister Kelly's
as Self
Babenco: Tell Me When I Die
as Self (archive footage)
The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart
as Self (archive footage/photos)
Disclosure
as Yentl (archive footage)
Together in Pride: You Are Not Alone
as Self
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound
as Self
David Foster: Off the Record
as Self
Mike Wallace Is Here
as (archive footage)
Sid & Judy
as Self (archive footage)
Bergman: A Year in a Life
as Self
Barbra: The Music ... The Mem'ries ... The Magic!
as Self
Barbra Streisand: Becoming an Icon 1942–1984
as Self
Hamilton's America
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Michael Buble's Christmas in New York
as Herself
Six by Sondheim
as Self (archive footage)
Barbra: Back to Brooklyn
as Self
Marvin Hamlisch: What He Did For Love
as Self
The Guilt Trip
as Joyce Brewster
Palme
as Self (archive footage)
Vito
as Self (archive footage)
A MusiCares Tribute To Barbra Streisand
as Self - Honoree
Little Fockers
as Rozalin Focker
One Night Only: Barbra Streisand and Quartet at the Village Vanguard
as Performer
Streisand: The Concerts
as Self (archive footage)
Streisand: Live in Concert 2006
as Self
Tony Bennett: Duets - The Making of an American Classic
as Self
Tony Bennett: An American Classic
as Self
Judy Garland Duets
as Self (archive footage)
Streisand: Guilty Pleasures
as Self - vocal
Meet the Fockers
as Rozalin Focker
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs: America's Greatest Music in the Movies
as Self
Barbra Streisand: The Concert - Live at the MGM Grand
as Self
Barbra Streisand: The Movie Album
as Barbra Streisand
Hollywood Rocks the Movies: The 1970s
as Esther Hoffman (archive footage)
AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Barbra Streisand
as self
Barbra Streisand: Timeless - Live in Concert
as Herself
The Way We Were: Looking Back
as Self
The Music of Kander & Ebb: Razzle Dazzle
as Self (archive footage)
The Mirror Has Two Faces
as Rose Morgan
The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful
as Self (archive footage)
Sinatra: 80 Years My Way
as Self - Presenter
Barbra: The Concert
as Self
The Prince of Tides
as Susan Lowenstein
Here's Looking At You, Warner Bros.
as Self
The Earth Day Special
as Self
Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Nuts
as Claudia Draper
Citizen Steve
as Self - Actress / Singer
Barbra Streisand: One Voice
as Self - Performer
Directed by William Wyler
as Self
Putting It Together: The Making of the Broadway Album
as Self
Yentl
as Yentl
I Love Liberty
as Self
All Night Long
as Cheryl Gibbons
The Main Event
as Hillary Kramer
Rona Barrett Looks at 1978
as Self
A Star Is Born
as Esther Hoffman
Funny Lady
as Fanny Brice
Funny Girl to Funny Lady
as Self
For Pete's Sake
as Henrietta 'Henry' Robbins
Barbra Streisand... and Other Musical Instruments
as Self
The Way We Were
as Katie Morosky
Up the Sandbox
as Margaret Reynolds
What's Up, Doc?
as Judy Maxwell
Screwball Comedies... Remember Them?
as Self
Singer Presents Burt Bacharach
as Herself
Fight of the Century
as Self-(Audience Member)
The Owl and the Pussycat
as Doris
On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
as Daisy Gamble
Hello, Dolly!
as Dolly Levi
Funny Girl
as Fanny Brice
A Happening in Central Park
as Performer
The Look of Funny Girl
This is Streisand
Barbra in Movieland
The Belle of 14th Street
as Performer
Color Me Barbra
as Performer
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My Name Is Barbra
as Performer
A Bob Hope Comedy Special
as Performer
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