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Lana Wachowski
she/her

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Places of practice

Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Alternate names

The Wachowskis

Years active

1994-

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Biography

Lana Wachowski and Lilly Wachowski are American film and television directors, writers and producers. The sisters are both trans women. Together known as the Wachowskis, 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. 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.

“The Wachowskis.” In Wikipedia, May 19, 2023. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Wachowskis&oldid=1155765366.
Filmography
  • Bound

    film/video, 1996

    Director, Writer/Screenwriter/Story, Executive Producer

  • The Matrix

    film/video, 1999

    Director, Writer/Screenwriter/Story, Executive Producer

  • Speed Racer

    film/video, 2008

    Director, Writer/Screenwriter/Story, Producer

  • Cloud Atlas

    film/video, 2012

    Director, Writer/Screenwriter/Story, Producer

  • Sense8

    TV series, 2015

    Director, Writer/Screenwriter/Story, Executive Producer

  • Limbic Resonance

    TV episode, 2015

    Director, Writer/Screenwriter/Story, Executive Producer

  • I Am Also a We

    TV episode, 2015

    Director, Writer/Screenwriter/Story, Executive Producer

  • What's Going On?

    TV episode, 2015

    Director, Writer/Screenwriter/Story, Executive Producer

  • Demons

    TV episode, 2015

    Director, Writer/Screenwriter/Story, Executive Producer

  • W. W. N. Double D?

    TV episode, 2015

    Director, Writer/Screenwriter/Story, Executive Producer

  • What Is Human?

    TV episode, 2015

    Director, Writer/Screenwriter/Story, Executive Producer

  • I Can't Leave Her

    TV episode, 2015

    Director, Writer/Screenwriter/Story, Executive Producer

  • Who Am I?

    TV episode, 2017

    Director, Writer/Screenwriter/Story, Executive Producer

  • Polyphony

    TV episode, 2017

    Director, Writer/Screenwriter/Story, Executive Producer

  • You Want a War?

    TV episode, 2017

    Director, Writer/Screenwriter/Story, Executive Producer

  • Amor Vincit Omnia

    TV episode, 2018

    Director, Writer/Screenwriter/Story, Executive Producer

References
“The Wachowskis.” In Wikipedia, May 19, 2023. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Wachowskis&oldid=1155765366.