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Lana Wachowski (born June 21, 1965; formerly known as
Larry Wachowski) and
Lilly Wachowski (born December 29, 1967; formerly known as
Andy Wachowski)
[1] are American film and television directors, writers and producers.
[2] The sisters are both
trans women.
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Together known as
the Wachowskis[a][6] (
/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, 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.
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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.
