The Wachowskis

The Wachowskis
Born
Laurence Wachowski
Andrew Paul Wachowski

Lana: (1965-06-21) June 21, 1965 (age 59)
Lilly: (1967-12-29) December 29, 1967 (age 56)
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Other namesCollectively:
  • The Wachowskis
  • The Wachowski brothers (before 2010)
    The Wachowski sisters
Occupation(s)Film and television directors, writers, producers
Years active1994–present
Notable work
SpousesLana:
Thea Bloom
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(m. 1993; div. 2002)​
Karin Winslow
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(m. 2009)​

Lilly:

Alisa Blasingame
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(m. 1991)​
RelativesLaurence Luckinbill (uncle)

Lana Wachowski (born Larry Wachowski, June 21, 1965)[1] and Lilly Wachowski (born Andy Wachowski, December 29, 1967)[2] are American film and television directors, writers and producers.[3] The sisters are both trans women.[4][5][6]

Together known as the Wachowskis[a][7] (/wəˈtʃaʊski/), the sisters have worked as a writing and directing team through most of their careers. They made their directing debut in 1996 with Bound and achieved fame with their second film, The Matrix (1999), a major box-office success for which they won the Saturn Award for Best Director. They wrote and directed its two sequels, The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions (both in 2003), and were involved in the writing and production of other works in the Matrix franchise.

Following the commercial success of the Matrix series, the Wachowskis wrote and produced the 2005 film V for Vendetta, an adaptation of the graphic novel by Alan Moore and David Lloyd, and in 2008 released the film Speed Racer, a live-action adaptation of the Japanese anime series. Their next film, Cloud Atlas, based on the novel by David Mitchell and co-written and co-directed by Tom Tykwer, was released in 2012. Their film Jupiter Ascending and the Netflix series Sense8, the latter of which they co-created with J. Michael Straczynski, debuted in 2015; the second season of Sense8 ended the series in 2018 and was Lana's first major project without Lilly.[8][9]

Since the series finale of Sense8, the Wachowskis have been working separately on different projects: Lilly directed, wrote, and executive-produced several episodes of Showtime's Work in Progress (2019) with creators Abby McEnany and Tim Mason, while Lana filmed The Matrix Resurrections, written with Mitchell and Aleksandar Hemon, which was released in December 2021.

  1. ^ "Larry Wachowski Biography (1965–)". Encyclopedia.com.
  2. ^ "Andy Wachowski Biography (1967–)". FilmReference.com. Archived from the original on July 10, 2012. Retrieved July 19, 2012.
  3. ^ "21 Transgender People Who Influenced American Culture". Time. Archived from the original on August 5, 2016.
  4. ^ Sieczkowski, Cavan (July 30, 2012). "Larry Wachowski Transgender: 'Matrix' Director Reveals Transition To Lana Wachowski (VIDEO)". HuffPost. Archived from the original on July 31, 2012. Retrieved January 23, 2022.
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  7. ^ Rachel Janik (February 24, 2015). "Wachowskis: Jupiter Ascending and Sense8 on Netflix: What to Expect". Time. Archived from the original on March 12, 2016. Retrieved March 11, 2016.
  8. ^ Wieselman, Jarett (May 26, 2016). "What To Expect From "Sense8" Season 2". BuzzFeed. Archived from the original on May 26, 2016. Retrieved May 26, 2016.
  9. ^ Jackson McHenry (May 26, 2016). "Lilly Wachowski to Take a Backseat on Sense8 Season Two". Vulture.com. Archived from the original on June 10, 2016. Retrieved June 10, 2016.


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