Barbra Streisand profile: net worth, age, height, husband and biography

Barbra Streisand, born Barbara Joan Streisand on April 24, 1942, in Brooklyn, New York, is an 84-year-old American singer, actress and filmmaker whose estimated net worth is $400 million, according to Celebrity Net Worth, although Forbes has estimated her fortune higher, at $510 million. Over a career of more than six decades she has sold more than 150 million records, won the Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony awards, and become one of the best-selling recording artists of all time. She is married to actor James Brolin, and she has one son, Jason Gould, from her first marriage to Elliott Gould.

Quick facts

Biography and early life

Barbara Joan Streisand was born in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, on April 24, 1942, so her birthday falls in late April and she turned 84 in April 2026. She was born into a Jewish family. Her father, Emanuel Streisand, was a high school teacher, and her mother, Diana, born Rosen, had sung as a young woman before working as a school secretary. Emanuel died when Barbra was only 15 months old, and the family struggled financially afterward, a childhood she has described as difficult and lonely. She has an older brother, Sheldon Streisand, and a younger maternal half-sister, the singer Roslyn Kind, from her mother’s second marriage.

Streisand attended Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn, where her classmates included future singer Neil Diamond and chess champion Bobby Fischer. She had little formal vocal training, but her voice drew attention early. As a teenager she entered talent contests and sang in small New York clubs, and after graduating she moved to Manhattan to pursue performing full time, taking acting classes and supporting herself with small jobs. She changed the spelling of her first name from Barbara to Barbra as her professional career began. The determination of those years, working nightclubs while still in her teens, became the foundation of one of the longest careers in American entertainment.

Career: Broadway, film and directing

Streisand’s breakthrough came in Greenwich Village nightclubs in the early 1960s, where her voice and dramatic delivery set her apart. She was cast in the Broadway musical I Can Get It for You Wholesale in 1962 and earned a Tony Award nomination for a supporting role. She signed with Columbia Records, and her debut release, The Barbra Streisand Album, in 1963 won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year. Her television special My Name Is Barbra won multiple Emmy Awards, and by the middle of the decade she was a star in three media at once: records, television and theater.

Her defining early role was the comedian and singer Fanny Brice in the Broadway musical Funny Girl, which opened in 1964. She reprised the role in the 1968 film version and won the Academy Award for Best Actress, sharing the honor in a rare tie with Katharine Hepburn. Film stardom followed through the 1970s with Hello, Dolly!, The Way We Were opposite Robert Redford, the comedy What’s Up, Doc?, and the 1976 remake of A Star Is Born opposite Kris Kristofferson, which produced her signature hit Evergreen. Behind the camera, she achieved a historic first in 1983 with Yentl, which she directed, produced, co-wrote and starred in, becoming the first woman to win the Golden Globe Award for Best Director. She later directed The Prince of Tides in 1991, which received an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture, and The Mirror Has Two Faces in 1996. Later acting work included Meet the Fockers and Little Fockers, which introduced her comedy to a new generation.

Streisand is one of the few entertainers to achieve EGOT status, having won Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony awards. She received the American Film Institute Life Achievement Award, the Kennedy Center Honors, and, in 2015, the Presidential Medal of Freedom. She published her memoir, My Name Is Barbra, in 2023. Her philanthropy, conducted largely through the Streisand Foundation, which she established in 1986, has supported civil rights, environmental protection, women’s health and voter participation causes.

Songs

Streisand’s recording career is measured in superlatives: more than 150 million records sold worldwide and five singles that reached number one on the US Billboard Hot 100. Her best-known songs include the following.

• People, her signature song from Funny Girl
• The Way We Were, a number one single and Academy Award-winning title song
• Evergreen, the love theme from A Star Is Born, which won the Academy Award and the Grammy for Song of the Year
• You Don’t Bring Me Flowers, a number one duet with Neil Diamond
• No More Tears (Enough Is Enough), a number one duet with Donna Summer
• Woman in Love, a number one single from the Guilty album
• Don’t Rain on My Parade, from Funny Girl

Her five chart-topping singles span standards, film themes and disco-era collaborations, which is a concise record of her range. Few singers have topped the pop chart in as many different styles, or across as many different decades.

Albums

Streisand has released 37 studio albums and has topped the US Billboard 200 chart with 11 of them, a record for a woman that stood until 2023. She remains the only artist to have a number one album in six consecutive decades. Her most important albums include The Barbra Streisand Album (1963), People (1964), My Name Is Barbra (1965), Stoney End (1971), The Way We Were (1974), Streisand Superman (1977), Guilty (1980), recorded with Barry Gibb and her best-selling studio album, The Broadway Album (1985), Higher Ground (1997), Love Is the Answer (2009), Partners (2014), Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway (2016) and Walls (2018). In June 2025 she released The Secret of Life: Partners, Volume Two, a duets album featuring collaborations that included Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, Sting, Ariana Grande and Sam Smith, extending her recording career into its seventh decade.

Net worth

According to Celebrity Net Worth, Barbra Streisand has a net worth of $400 million. Published estimates do not all agree: Forbes has estimated her fortune at $510 million, a higher figure that reflects different valuations of her real estate and catalog. No public filing confirms either number, so both should be read as estimates. What is not in dispute is the scale and the sources. Her fortune was built across more than sixty years of record sales, concert tours that grossed hundreds of millions of dollars, film salaries and directing and producing income, and one of the most valuable private real estate holdings of any entertainer.

Celebrity Net Worth notes that she owns at least $100 million worth of real estate in Southern California, and that her homes could be worth as much as $200 million depending on the market, with the Malibu compound alone possibly worth $100 million. She also owns a valuable art collection whose total value has not been published; as an indication of its level, a 1900 painting by John Singer Sargent that she donated to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 2015 has been valued at about $20 million based on comparable sales. Catalog royalties from 150 million records, ownership of her work and decades of high-grossing tours make up the rest of the picture.

Personal life and family

Streisand married actor Elliott Gould in 1963. They had one son together, Jason Gould, born on December 29, 1966, who became an actor and singer himself. The marriage ended in divorce in 1971. On July 1, 1998, she married actor James Brolin, and the two marked their 28th wedding anniversary in July 2026. She and Brolin have no children together. Through Brolin she is stepmother to his children from his earlier marriages, including the actor Josh Brolin, who is her stepson and not her son, a distinction that is sometimes blurred in online biographies.

Her family story starts in Brooklyn with her parents, Emanuel and Diana, her brother Sheldon and her half-sister Roslyn Kind, who built her own singing career. The early loss of her father, who died before she was two, and the family’s financial hardship afterward are experiences Streisand has returned to throughout her life, including in her memoir, and they sit behind her long record of charitable giving on women’s health, education and voting access.

House and real estate

Streisand’s main home is her bluff-top compound in the Point Dume neighborhood of Malibu, California. According to Celebrity Net Worth, the compound was assembled from three parcels acquired over several transactions starting in the 1990s and contains five structures, including a barn. The main house is about 10,500 square feet with eight bedrooms, and the two neighboring houses are about 2,000 and 6,000 square feet. The property is known for its Art Deco styling and for the street of small shops she built in the basement to display her collections of clothing, dolls and antiques, a feature documented in her own design book and in television tours of the home.

Her wider property history includes a Manhattan penthouse, which she listed in 2019 for $11.25 million, and a large Beverly Hills mansion that was listed in 2016. For readers comparing her long property history with a purchase of their own, a practical first step is understanding how much a home inspection costs before buying a house, a routine check that applies to ordinary homes as much as to celebrity estates. The Malibu compound, assembled patiently over decades rather than bought in a single transaction, remains her primary residence with Brolin.

Instagram and public presence

Barbra Streisand’s official Instagram account is @barbrastreisand, linked from her official website. She uses the account for personal photographs, family and anniversary posts with James Brolin, photographs of her dogs and her Malibu home, and statements on the political and charitable causes she supports. She is more personally active on the platform than many performers of her generation. Because follower counts change daily, no exact figure is stated as fact here; readers should rely on the verified @barbrastreisand account and treat similarly named profiles as fan pages.

Closing summary

Barbra Streisand’s profile is a six-decade record of firsts. Born Barbara Joan Streisand on April 24, 1942, in Brooklyn to Emanuel and Diana Streisand, she rose from nightclub work to Funny Girl on stage and screen, won an Academy Award, topped the album chart in six decades, and became the first woman to win a Golden Globe for directing. Her songs, from People and The Way We Were to Evergreen and Woman in Love, have sold more than 150 million records. Married to James Brolin since 1998 and the mother of Jason Gould, she holds an estimated net worth of $400 million according to Celebrity Net Worth, with Forbes estimating $510 million, anchored by her Malibu compound and her catalog.