: Kekilli's debut role, discovered by a casting agent in a shopping mall, won the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival. She played Sibel Güner, a young woman who enters a marriage of convenience to escape her restrictive family. This performance earned her the first of two Lola Awards for Best Actress .
: In this intense drama, she portrays Umay, a woman fleeing an abusive marriage in Istanbul to return to her family in Berlin. Her performance won the Best Actress award at the Tribeca Film Festival and her second Lola.
Kekilli has maintained a significant presence on television, balancing long-running German procedurals with major international series.
: A harrowing historical drama where she plays a Jewish woman on a transport to the Auschwitz concentration camp. Television Success: From Tatort to Westeros
