Barbra Streisand Net Worth

Barbra Streisand has an estimated net worth of $510 million, according to Forbes America's Richest Self-Made Women 2025, Barbra Streisand profile (figures as of Forbes America's Richest Self-Made Women 2025). That is up from $400 million in 2018.

Barbra Streisand is an American singer, songwriter, actress, author, and filmmaker whose career has run across music, film, television, and Broadway. She started out in nightclubs and on stage in the early 1960s, then moved into television guest spots. After signing with Columbia Records, she kept full artistic control by taking lower pay. Her debut, The Barbra Streisand Album, arrived in 1963 and won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year.

Her fame grew in both music and movies. On records, she built a long run of hit albums, including People, The Way We Were, Guilty, The Broadway Album, and Higher Ground. In film, she starred in Funny Girl, Hello, Dolly!, What's Up, Doc?, and The Way We Were. She also made history with Yentl in 1983, becoming the first woman to write, produce, direct, and star in a major studio film.

How Barbra Streisand built her wealth

Most of Streisand's wealth comes from music, according to Forbes, which places her in Media & Entertainment. Her recording career stretches across decades and includes 31 RIAA platinum-certified albums. She was also the first woman to score 11 number one albums on the Billboard 200, from People to Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway in 2016. Forbes notes she is the only act with a No. 1 album in six consecutive decades.

Her career also expanded far beyond singing. Streisand turned major music success into film work with Funny Girl in 1968, A Star Is Born in 1976, and Yentl in 1983. She later produced and directed The Prince of Tides in 1991 and The Mirror Has Two Faces in 1996. Forbes also points to her Malibu compound, bought for under $20 million and valued by sources at around $100 million.

Forbes net worth and other money notes

Forbes estimated Streisand's net worth at $400 million in 2018, and kept that same figure in 2019 and 2020. It then rose to $415 million in 2021, $425 million in 2022, and $430 million in 2023. Those estimates fit a career built on music, film, and a large catalog that has kept producing new releases, including a Yentl tribute and a retrospective tied to six decades with Columbia Records.

The latest Forbes estimate is $510 million in 2025, up from $460 million in 2024. Forbes does not tie that number to just one project, but its notes highlight the scale of her long entertainment career and the value of her real estate. They also mention recent releases, including the 2022 set of early recordings intended to be her debut solo record, alongside her long run of award-winning work.