Sibel Kekilli
Sibel Kekilli | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 2003-present |
Sibel Kekilli (born June 16, 1980 in Heilbronn, Germany) is an award-winning German actress of Turkish origin. Prior to her mainstream fame, she acted in hardcore pornographic films.
Life and career
She grew up in Heilbronn. After leaving school, she worked for two years for the local city government, then moved to Essen where she worked various jobs.
One day in 2002 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.[1] 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) was released in 2004 and was a major public success, receiving several prizes at film festivals.
Kekilli underwent an appendectomy during the filming in Turkey.
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".[2] This report led to a public scandal and the Bild-Zeitung was reprimanded by the Deutscher Presserat, the self-control institution of German publishers.
She starred in the Turkish coup d'état movie Eve Dönüş (2006), 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 the 2006 Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival.
Sibel Kekilli played a young Jewish woman on the way to the Auschwitz concentration camp in the 2006 German movie Der letzte Zug (The last train).
In 2009 she will be seen playing Umay, a young Turkish woman who leaves Istanbul to return to her family in Berlin in Feo Aladag's "When We Leave."
Sibel Kekilli lives in Hamburg and supports the organization Terre des Femmes in their work against violence in families with Islamic background. In 2006, at an event of a Turkish newspaper, she stated "I have experienced myself that physical and psychological violence is seen as normal in Muslim families. Unfortunately violence belongs to the culture in Islam." This caused the Turkish Consul general to leave the room.[3]
Filmography
Pornography
- Junge Debütantinnen 19: Deutsche Debütantinnen – Hart & Herzlich (2001)
- 2002 Wilde Sex-Nächte (2002)
- Teeny Exzesse 68 – Kesse Bienen (2002)
- Lollipops 16 (2002)
- Hotel Fickmichgut (2002)
- Die Verfickte Praxis (2002)
- Die Megageile Küken-Farm (2002)
- Süsse Teeny-Träume (2002)
- Ein Sommertagstraum (2002)
- Auf Frischer Tat Ertappt! (2002)
- Euro Mädchen – Amateure Intim 11 (2002)
- Casa Rosso (2002)
- Tierisches Teenie-Reiten (2002)
Mainstream
- Gegen die Wand (2004)
- Kebab Connection (2004)
- Winterreise (2006)
- Fay Grim (2006)
- Der Letzte Zug (2006)
- Eve Dönüş (2006)
- Pihalla (2009)
- Die Fremde (2009)
References
- ^ "Man erkennt sich", Welt am Sonntag, 7 March 2004
- ^ "Culture & Lifestyle: From Bare to Bear for Ex-Porn Queen" Deutsche Welle, 2004-02-18. Retrieved 2007-10-20.
- ^ Eklat um Sibel Kekilli in Berlin, Der Tagesspiegel, 4 December 2006