Sibel Kekilli

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Sibel Kekilli
Born June 16, 1980 (1980-06-16) (age 27)
Heilbronn, Germany
Occupation Actress

former pornstar
Years active 2003-present

Sibel Kekilli (born June 16, 1980 in Heilbronn, Germany) is an award-winning German actress and a former pornstar of Turkish origin.

[edit] Life and career

One day while at a Cologne shopping mall, she was noticed by a casting director who called her up for an audition for a role in a movie. Sibel won the leading role for Fatih Akın's planned movie against a field of 350 other hopefuls.

This movie Gegen die Wand (Head-On) written and directed by Fatih Akın was a major public success and received several prizes at film festivals:

  • The golden prize in the category for the best actress at the "Deutscher Filmpreis" ("German Film Prize") on June 18.
  • The "Quadriga" prize on October 3 in Berlin, Germany.
  • The "Silver Mirror Award" for the best "movie from the south" at the Film Festival on October 16 in Oslo, Norway.
  • The audience prize at the "9th Festival de Cine" on November 6-13 in Sevilla, Spain.
  • The "Golden Bambi" for the best shooting star at the "56. Bambi-Verleihung" on November 19 in Hamburg, Germany.
  • The golden "Gilde" prize for the best German movie 2003/2004 at the "Leipzig Film Fair".
  • The award for the best "European movie 2004" at the "European Film Prize" on December 11 in Barcelona, Spain.

Kekilli underwent an appendectomy during the filming in Turkey.

She starred in the Turkish coup d'etat movie Eve Dönüş, playing the wife of a man who was unjustly imprisoned and tortured. Although her performance was criticized, especially her distinctive accent (some suggested over-dubbing her voice), she still managed to receive the award of Best Actress at 2006 Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival.

Sibel Kekilli will play a young Jewish woman on the way to the Auschwitz concentration camp in the upcoming German movie Der letzte Zug (The last train).

Shortly after the release of "Head on", the German tabloid newspaper Bild-Zeitung revealed, in sensationalist tone, that she had previously acted in pornographic films using the stage name "Dilara".[1] This report led to a public scandal and the Bild-Zeitung was reprimanded by the Deutscher Presserat, the self-control institution of German publishers.

[edit] References

  1. ^ "Culture & Lifestyle: From Bare to Bear for Ex-Porn Queen" Deutsche Welle, 2004-02-18. Retrieved 2007-10-20.

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Awards
Preceded by
Beste Bereket		 Golden Orange Award for Best Actress
2006
for Eve Dönüş		 Succeeded by
Özgü Namal
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Golden Orange Award for Best Actress
Türkan Şoray (1964) · Fatma Girik (1965) · Selma Güneri (1966) · Fatma Girik (1967) · Türkan Şoray (1968) · Hülya Koçyiğit (1969) · Belgin Doruk (1970) · Filiz Akın (1971) · Zeynep Aksu (1972) · Hülya Koçyiğit (1973) · Perihan Savaş (1974) · Hülya Koçyiğit (1975) · Adile Naşit (1976) · Semra Özdamar (1977) · Hale Soygazi (1978) · Meral Orhonsay (1981) · Nur Sürer (1982) · Hülya Koçyiğit (1983) · Hale Soygazi (1984) · Zuhal Olcay (1985) · Müjde Ar (1986) · Türkan Şoray (1987) · Gülşen Bubikoğlu (1988) · Nur Sürer (1989) · Hülya Koçyiğit (1990) · Sumru Yavrucuk (1991) · Lale Mansur (1992) · Müjde Ar (1993) · Türkan Şoray (1994) · Zuhal Gencer (1995) · Yasemin Alkaya-Hande Ataizi (1996) · Derya Alabora (1997) · Yelda Kaymakçı Reynaud (1998) · Başak Köklükaya (1999) · Sanem Çelik (2000) · Demet Akbağ-Yeşim Salkım (2001) · Meral Oğuz (2002) · Meltem Cumbul (2003) · Tülin Özen (2004) · Beste Bereket-Vildan Atasever (2005) · Sibel Kekilli (2006) · Özgü Namal (2007)