The Wachowskis

Lana Wachowski (born June 21, 1965) and Lilly Wachowski (born December 29, 1967), known together professionally as the Wachowskis and formerly as the Wachowski Brothers, 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
Lilly Wachowski (left) and Lana Wachowski (right)
Born	Chicago, Illinois, United States Lana: (1965-06-21) June 21, 1965 Lilly: (1967-12-29) December 29, 1967
Occupation	Producers, screenwriters

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

Filmography

• Assassins (1995) (story, screenplay credits)
• Bound (1996) (written and directed, executive producers)
• The Matrix (1999) (written and directed, executive producers)
• The Matrix Reloaded (2003) (written and directed, executive producers)
• The Matrix Revolutions (2003) (written and directed, executive producers)
• The Animatrix (2003) (producers, wrote four of the nine animated shorts)
• V for Vendetta (2006) (produced and written, based on the graphic novel by Alan Moore and David Lloyd)
• The Invasion (2007) (rewritten various parts and added a twist ending, uncredited)
• Speed Racer (2008) (produced, written and directed, based on the Speed Racer anime)
• Ninja Assassin (2009) (producers)
• 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