Barbra Streisand

Barbra Streisand is a singer, actress, and filmmaker. She has achieved success in multiple entertainment fields in a career spanning six decades. She has been recognized with two Academy Awards, ten Grammy Awards, including the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and the Grammy Legend Award, five Emmy Awards, including one Daytime Emmy, a Special Tony Award, an American Film Institute award, a Kennedy Center Honors prize, four Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. She is among a small group of entertainers honored with an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Award – though only three were competitive awards – and is one of only two artists in that group who have also won a Peabody.

After beginning a successful recording career in the 1960s, Streisand ventured into film by the end of that decade. She starred in the critically acclaimed Funny Girl, for which she won the Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Actress. Her other films include The Owl and the Pussycat, The Way We Were, and A Star Is Born, for which she received her second Academy Award, composing music for the love theme "Evergreen," making her the first woman to be honored as a composer. With the release of Yentl in 1983, Streisand 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. Streisand also received the Golden Globe Award for Best Director.

Streisand is one of the best-selling recording artists of all time, with over 68.5 million albums in the U.S. and 150 million records sold worldwide, making her the best-selling female artist among top-selling artists recognized by the Recording Industry Association of America. Billboard also recognizes Streisand as the greatest female of all time on its Billboard 200 chart and one of the greatest artists on its Hot 100 chart. Streisand is the only recording artist to have a #1 album in each of the last six decades, having released 53 gold albums, 31 platinum albums, and 14 multi-platinum albums in the United States.

Streisand has also authored multiple books, including the design book "My Passion for Design" and the memoir "My Name is Barbra."

In 2000, President Bill Clinton presented Streisand with the National Medal of Arts, the highest honor specifically given for achievement in the arts. In 2007, French President Nicolas Sarkozy presented Streisand with the Legion of Honor, the highest decoration in France, and President George W. Bush presented her with the Kennedy Center Honors, the highest recognition of cultural achievement.