Name	Sibel Kekilli
Height
Naionality	German
Date of Birth	16-June-1980
Place of Birth	Heilbronn, Germany
Famous for	Acting

Sibel Kekilli is a German actress. She gained public attention after starring in the 2004 film Head-On (German: Gegen die Wand). She has won two Lolas, the most prestigious German film awards, for her performances in Head-On and When We Leave. Recently she has appeared in the HBO series Game of Thrones as Shae, the concubine and lover of Tyrion Lannister, one of the show's leading characters.
Kekilli was born and raised in Heilbronn, to a family of Turkish origin. Her parents came to West Germany from Turkey in 1977, and were described by Kekilli as fairly liberal. After finishing school successfully at age 16, she completed an apprenticeship as a public administration employee at the local city government, and then worked for two years at the municipal waste disposal office. She moved to Essen in 2002, where she had various jobs, including work as a saleswoman, cleaner, manager of a nightclub and promoter.

One day in 2002, while at a Cologne shopping mall, she was noticed by a casting director, who invited her to audition for a role in a movie. Sibel won the leading part in Fatih Akın's Head-On (German: Gegen die Wand) against a field of 350 other hopefuls. The film was released in 2004 and was a major success, receiving several prizes at film festivals. Filming proved strenuous for Kekilli personally, however, and she underwent an appendectomy during the filming in Turkey. After the movie, she had a rhinoplasty.