join AFI login 2001: Barbra Streisand Visit the AFI LIFE ACHIEVEMENT AWARD SITE featuring tributes, filmographies and photo galleries of all recipients! THE ACHIEVEMENT OF BARBRA STREISAND By Rochelle L. Levy The trustees of the American Film Institute have selected Barbra Streisand to receive AFI's 29th Life Achievement Award. Although Streisand got her start as a singer, performing as a teenager at The Lion, Bon Soir and The Blue Angel in Manhattan, her first love was always acting. She describes herself as "an actress who sings." She won two Grammy Awards in 1963 for her first album, The Barbra Streisand Album ; currently, she has a career total of 10. She is still the highest-selling female recording artist ever, with 42 gold, 26 platinum and 13 multi-platinum albums. She has had #1 albums in each of the last four decades. After starring on Broadway as Miss Marmelstein in I Can Get It For You Wholesale (for which she won the New York Drama Critics Award) and as Fanny Brice in Funny Girl Evergreen Yentl, the Yeshiva Boy | |
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