| Ines Farag |
Barbra Streisand is an American singer-songwriter, actress, Broadway legend, writer, film producer and director. She was born in Brooklyn, New York, on April 24, 1942. She's won two Oscars, eight Grammy Awards, five Emmy Awards, a Special Tony Award, an American Film Institute Award, a Kennedy Center Honors award, and a Peabody Award. She's one of the few humans to have won an Oscar, Emmy, Grammy and Tony Award. She's the best-selling female artist on the Recording Industry Association of America's (RIAA) Top Selling Album Artists list, the only artist outside of rock and roll, and the only female recording artist in the top ten. Joining the elite ranks of Frank Sinatra, Cher and Shirley Jones, Streisand has won an acting Oscar as well as a number-one single on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart. After performing in a number of New York City hotspots with varying success, Streisand launched her recording career in the 1960s and ventured into the film by the end of the decade, with the acclaimed "Funny Girl" (1968), "Hello, Dolly!" (1969), for which she won the Oscar and Golden Globe for Best Actress. Her other films from this time include "The Owl and the Pussycat" (1970), "The Way We Were" (1973), "A Star Is Born" (1976), which earned her a second Oscar for the film's theme song. In the 1980s, Streisand broke a Hollywood glass ceiling. She became the first woman to direct, produce, script and star in her own feature film, "Yentl" (1983), which won one of the five Oscars it was nominated for. Her directorial follow-up, "The Prince of Tides" (1991) was also well received; she directed, produced and starred in the romance alongside Nick Holte. Streisand holds the RIAA record for the most top-ten albums of any female recording artist: 32 since 1963. Streisand became one of the few artists to have churned out number-one albums in five consecutive decades with her 2009 release "Love is the Answer." Her recent film credits include "Meet the Fockers" (2004), its sequel "Little Fockers" (2010), and the Seth Rogen comedy "The Guilt Trip" (2012).
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