Stage acting debut in "The Insect Comedy"

Won a singing contest at The Lion, a small Greenwich Village club; led to engagements at Bon Soir and the Blue Angel

Made TV debut as guest on "The Tonight Show", guest hosted by Orson Bean

Off-Broadway debut in the revue "Another Evening with Harry Stoones"; also featured was Dom DeLuise

Broadway debut as the secretary Miss Marmelstein in "I Can Get It For You Wholesale"; received Tony nomination

Put under contract by Columbia Records in October

Released first solo album

Breakthrough stage role, Fanny Brice in "Funny Girl"; received second Tony nomination

Made London stage debut reprising her Broadway success in "Funny Girl"

Film debut in director William Wyler's adaptation of "Funny Girl"; tied with Katharine Hepburn for the Best Actress Academy Award

Starred in the overblown film version of "Hello, Dolly!", directed by Gene Kelly; ironically Carol Channing who originated the role won the 1964 Tony Award beating out Streisand in "Funny Girl"

Formed Barwood Films; first Barwood-produced film, "Up the Sandbox"

Delivered a fine comic turn in the modern screwball "What's Up, Doc?"; first screen teaming with Ryan O'Neal

Had big success teamed with Robert Redford in "The Way We Were"; also sang the theme song; earned second Best Actress Oscar nomination

Reprised role of Fanny Brice in the sequel "Funny Lady"

First film as executive producer, "A Star Is Born"; also starred and composed some of the songs; received second Oscar for the song "Evergreen", making her the first female composer ever to receive an Academy Award; song co-written with Paul Williams

Produced first film, "The Main Event" (with Jon Peters); reteamed on screen with Ryan O'Neal

Feature directorial and screenwriting (co-writer) debut, "Yentl"; also produced and starred in title role of a woman who poses as a boy to study the Talmud

"The Broadway Album" returned her to her theatrical roots

Starred as an upper-class woman forced into prostitution who is accused of murdering one of her clients in "Nuts", adapted from the Broadway play; also served as producer and composer

Helmed second film, the Oscar-nominated Best Picture "The Prince of Tides"; also starred and served as a producer; film received a total of eight Academy Award nominations, but was not nominated for its direction

Released "Back to Broadway", a second recording of theater music

Donated her 24-acre, $15 million estate to the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy; to be named the Streisand Center for Conservancy Studies

Received a reported $12 million for two concerts in Las Vegas

Went on a landmark multi-city concert tour; included her first live New York performances since "A Happening in Central Park" in 1967; concerts were taped and aired first on HBO and in a slightly revised form on CBS

Served as an executive producer on the Emmy-winning TV-movie "Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story", starring Glenn Close

Helmed third film "The Mirror Has Two Faces", also starred, produced and contributed to the music score

Served as an executive producer of the NBC TV-movie "The Long Island Incident"

Went on a "farewell" concert tour, culminating in concerts in Las Vegas on New Year's Eve 1999 and New Year's Day 2000; videotaped and aired as a 2001 Fox special "Barbra Streisand -- Timeless"

Hosted the award-winning AMC special "Reel Models: The First Women of Film"; also served as executive producer

Executive produced the Showtime original movie "Frankie and Hazel", directed by JoBeth Williams

Was executive producer of a series of PBS specials aired under the umbrella title "The Living Century"

Served as executive producer of the Lifetime lesbian-themed movie "What Makes a Family"

Was executive producer of the Showtime original "Varian's War"

Received grammy nomination for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album

Co-starred with Dustin Hoffman as Ben Stiller's parents in "Meet the Fockers"

Planning a new extravagent 20-show tour, despite bidding farewell to fans with her 'final' live concert in 2000; tour set for fall 2006