The Wachowskis

The Wachowskis
Andrew Wachowski (Lilly) (left) and Lana Wachowski (right) in 2012
Born	Lana: Laurence Wachowski Lilly: Andrew Paul Wachowski Lana: (1965-06-21) June 21, 1965 Lilly: (1967-12-29) December 29, 1967 Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Other names	Collectively: The Wachowskis The Wachowski Brothers (before 2010) The Wachowski Sisters (after 2016)
Occupation(s)	Film and television directors, writers, producers
Years active	1994–present
Notable work	Bound The Matrix series V for Vendetta Speed Racer Cloud Atlas Jupiter Ascending Sense8
Spouses	Lana: Thea Bloom ​ ​ (m. 1993; div. 2002)​ Karin Winslow ​ (m. 2009)​ Lilly: Alisa Blasingame ​ (m. 1991)​
Relatives	Laurence Luckinbill (uncle)

Lana Wachowski (born June 21, 1965, birth name Laurence Wachowski) and Lilly Wachowski (born December 29, 1967, birth name Andrew Paul Wachowski), known together professionally as The Wachowskis, currently as The Wachowski Sisters (since 2016), and formerly as The Wachowski Brothers (before 2010), are Polish American movie directors, writers and transgender women, most famous for creating The Matrix series. Their other projects include live-action adaptation of Speed Racer, Jupiter Ascending and the Netflix television series Sense8.

Lana Wachowski had a sex change operation in 2008 and changed her name from Larry Wachowski. Lilly changed her name from Andy Wachowski in 2016.

Filmography

• Assassins (1995) (story, screenplay credits, as The Wachowski Brothers)
• Bound (1996) (written and directed, executive producers, as The Wachowski Brothers)
• The Matrix (1999) (written and directed, executive producers, as The Wachowski Brothers)
• The Matrix Reloaded (2003) (written and directed, executive producers, as The Wachowski Brothers)
• The Matrix Revolutions (2003) (written and directed, executive producers, as The Wachowski Brothers)
• The Animatrix (2003) (producers, wrote four of the nine animated shorts, as The Wachowski Brothers)
• V for Vendetta (2006) (produced and written, based on the graphic novel by Alan Moore and David Lloyd, as The Wachowski Brothers)

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  Laurence Wachowski (Lana) in 1999

  The Invasion (2007) (rewritten various parts and added a twist ending, uncredited, as The Wachowski Brothers)
• Speed Racer (2008) (produced, written and directed, based on the Speed Racer anime, as The Wachowski Brothers)
• Ninja Assassin (2009) (producers, as The Wachowski Brothers)
• Cloud Atlas (2012) (written and directed, executive producers)
• Jupiter Ascending (2015) (written and directed, executive producers)
• Sense8 (2015) (directed)

Other websites

• Lana Wachowski on IMDb
• Lilly Wachowski on IMDb