Vintage Photos Celebrate Barbra Streisand's 84th Birthday

To mark Barbra Streisand's 84th birthday on April 24, 2026, Vogue published a gallery of 29 vintage photographs spanning her early career. Born in Brooklyn in 1942, Streisand launched her music career in early 1960s New York nightclubs, releasing her debut album in 1963. She won an Oscar for her film debut in Funny Girl (1968) after starring on Broadway and London's West End. The collection includes images from her marriage to Elliott Gould (1963-1971), with whom she had son Jason Gould (born 1966). Highlights include her 1967 free concert A Happening in Central Park attracting 135,000 people, her role in Hello Dolly (1969) directed by Gene Kelly, and her performance in The Owl and the Pussycat (1970). She earned a second Oscar nomination for The Way We Were (1973). In 1976, she starred in A Star Is Born with Kris Kristofferson, winning an Oscar for the song "Evergreen." Her directorial debut Yentl (1983) made her the first woman to win Best Director at the Golden Globes. The gallery also shows her with figures like Judy Garland, Ray Charles, Neil Diamond, Steven Spielberg, and James Brolin, whom she married in 1998.