Sibel Kekilli

Career

Born in Heilbronn to Turkish parents who emigrated to West Germany in 1977, Kekilli trained in administration at sixteen and worked in local government before moving to Essen. She appeared in pornographic films under the name Dilara for roughly six months across 2001 and 2002. A casting director spotted her in a Cologne shopping centre in 2002 and she won the lead in Fatih Akin’s Head-On against 350 other candidates; the film took the Golden Bear at Berlin and she took the Lola for Best Actress. The tabloid Bild disclosed her adult work immediately afterwards, her parents cut contact, and the German Press Council subsequently reprimanded the paper. She won a second Lola in 2010 for When We Leave, played Shae across twenty episodes of Game of Thrones between 2011 and 2014, and starred in the Kiel edition of Tatort for fourteen episodes.

Signature: She is the only performer on this page to have won her country’s national best-actress award twice, and the only one whose treatment by the press over an adult career produced a formal ruling against a newspaper.

Index score — The Pornstar Ranked Performer Index v3.0

Scores are normalised within a single ranking's field, so this breakdown is Sibel Kekilli's placement inside The Best European Pornstars, Ranked — the largest field she appears in. Her rank on each of the other 1 ranking below was computed against that ranking's own field and is not the same measurement.

Full award record5 entries

• 2004German Film Awards (Lola) — Best Actress — Head-On
• 2004Bambi Awards — Shooting Star
• 2006Golden Orange Film Festival — Best Actress — Home Coming
• 2010German Film Awards (Lola) — Best Actress — When We Leave
• 2010Tribeca Film Festival — Best Actress — When We Leave

Best known for

Beyond performing

• Ambassador, Terre des Femmes (violence against women)

Mainstream credits

• Head-On (2004)
• Winter Journey (2006)
• The Last Train (2006)
• When We Leave (2009)
• Game of Thrones (2011–2014, 20 episodes)
• Tatort (2010–2017, 14 episodes)
• What a Man (2011)
• Berlin, I Love You (2019)

Official links

Official site

Ranked alongside

• Nina Hartley
• Sasha Grey
• Stoya
• Emily Willis
• Riley Steele
• Bree Olson

Sources and verification2 sources

Last audited 22 August 2026 · Wikipedia — Sibel Kekilli · Wikidata — Sibel Kekilli

Not yet confirmed:

• Number and titles of the 2001–2002 adult productions
• Physical statistics
• Exact start and end dates of the adult work