Eighteen Barbra Streisand facts

1. Barbra Streisand was born on April 24, 1942 in Brooklyn, New York.
2. Barbra Streisand is a american actress, singer, producer, director and composer.
3. She is the best-selling female artist on the Recording Industry Association of America's (RIAA) Top Selling Artists list and the only female recording artist in the top ten.
4. Barbra Streisand attended the Bais Yakov School and Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn.
5. When Barbra Streisand was a teenager she started singing in nightclubs.
6. With her 2009 album, Love Is the Answer, she became the only artist to achieve number 1 albums in five consecutive decades.
7. Her parents' names are Diana Rosen and Emmanuel Streisand. 
8. Her acting career started in 1970 with "On a Clear Day You Can See Forever". From then on she appeared in "Up the Sandbox", "A Star Is Born", "The Prince of Tides" or "Meet the Fockers".
9. Two of her best friends are Shirley MacLaine and Donna Karan. 
10. Along with Frank Sinatra, Cher, Jamie Foxx and Shirley Jones, she shares the distinction of being awarded an acting Oscar and also recording a #1 pop single on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart.
11. Barbra Streisand was awarded with a Grammy, an Emmy, an Oscar and a Tony and was the first person to achieve that.
12. Barbra Streisand likes to eat Chinese food and coffee ice cream.
13. On March 21, 1963 Barbra married Elliott Gould. They have one child Jason Gould, but in 1971 they divorced.
14. In 1998 Barbra Streisand married James Brolin.
15. Height: 165 cm.
16. According to the RIAA, Streisand holds the record for the most Top 10 albums of any female recording artist; a total of 31 to her credit since 1963.
17. Barbra Streisand was elected the best selling female singer of the 20th Century.
18. In 2006, Streisand donated $1 million to the William Jefferson Clinton Foundation in support of President Bill Clinton’s climate change initiative.