The Wachowskis
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 Sense-8.
The Wachowskis | |
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 Andrew Wachowski (Lilly) (left) and Lana Wachowski (right) in 2012 | |
| Born | Lana: Laurence Wachowski Lilly: Andrew Paul Wachowski Lana: June 21, 1965 Lilly: December 29, 1967 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Other names | Collectively:
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| Occupation | Film and television directors, writers, producers |
| Years active | 1994–present |
Notable work | |
| Spouse(s) | Lana:
Lilly: Alisa Blasingame (m. 1991) |
| Relatives | Laurence Luckinbill (uncle) |
Lana Wachowski had a sex change operation in 2008 and changed her name from Larry Wachowski.[1] 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)
- 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)
The Wachowskis Media
The Wachowskis at the 2004 San Diego ComicCon
The Animatrix logo
References
- ↑ "Sex Change for Larry Wachowski?". gothamist.com. June 5, 2003. Archived from the original on March 24, 2012. Retrieved August 19, 2012.
Other websites
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