Sibel Kekilli (born June 16, 1980 in Heilbronn, Germany) is an award-winning German actress of Turkish origin. Prior to her mainstream fame beginning with the 2004 film Gegen die Wand (Head-On), she had acted in pornographic films under the stage name Dilara.
She grew up in Heilbronn, the daughter of Turkish parents who had come to Germany in 1977. She describes her parents as fairly liberal, allowing her to participate at school trips and to go ...
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Sibel Kekilli (born June 16, 1980 in Heilbronn, Germany) is an award-winning German actress of Turkish origin. Prior to her mainstream fame beginning with the 2004 film Gegen die Wand (Head-On), she had acted in pornographic films under the stage name Dilara.
She grew up in Heilbronn, the daughter of Turkish parents who had come to Germany in 1977. She describes her parents as fairly liberal, allowing her to participate at school trips and to go without a headscarf. After leaving school at age 16, 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. 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.
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