10 Things You Didn’t Know About Barbra Streisand

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Barbra Streisand is one of the best-selling recording artists of all time, with more than 68.5 million albums in the U.S. and 150 million albums and singles sold worldwide.

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More than just an E.G.O.T. winner (an artist awarded an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony).

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Barbra is the only artist who has received the Directors Guild of America, Golden Globe, National Medal of Arts, and Peabody awards, as well as France’s Légion d’Honneur and the American Film Institute’s Lifetime Achievement Award.

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In 2015, President Barack Obama presented her with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

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Barbra is the only recording artist to have a number-one album in each of the last six decades.

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For her first motion picture, Funny Girl, she won the 1968 Academy Award for Best Actress.

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With her song “Evergreen,” from her 1976 hit film A Star Is Born, Barbra became the first female composer to win an Academy Award.

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She was almost Canada’s First Lady. Barbra was dating Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau (father of current Prime Minister Justin Trudeau) in 1969, but turned down his marriage proposal.

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Motion picture Yentl in 1983, Barbra fought tirelessly to make the film a reality and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Director. To date, she is the only woman to have won that category.

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She has three dogs named Miss Fanny, Miss Violet, and Miss Scarlett.