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Lana Wachowski and her sister Lilly Wachowski, (also known as 'The Wachowskis') are the duo behind ground-breaking movies such as Matrix (1999) and Cloud Atlas (2012). Born to mother Lynne, a nurse, and father Ron, a businessman of Polish descent, Wachowski grew up in Chicago and formed a tight creative relationship with her sister Lilly. After the siblings dropped out of college, they started a construction business and wrote screenplays. Their 1995 script, Assassins - Die Killer (1995), was made into a movie, leading to a Warner Bros contract. After that time, the Wachowskis devoted themselves to their movie careers. In 2012, during interviews for Cloud Atlas and in her acceptance speech for the Human Rights Campaign's Visibility Award, Lana spoke about her experience of being a transgender woman, sacrificing her much cherished anonymity out of a sense of responsibility. Lana is known to be extremely well-read, loves comic books and exploring ideas of imaginary worlds, and was inspired by Stanley Kubrick's 2001: Odyssee im Weltraum (1968) in creating Cloud Atlas.

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Thea Bloom (30 October 1993 - 2002) ( divorced)

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Stunning fight scenes, usually involving martial arts



Big-budget action sequences utilizing modern techniques of film making



Hot pink dreadlocks.



Often works with Doona Bae



Had a reputation as a recluse and almost never gave interviews prior to 2012



Frequently casts Joe Pantoliano and Hugo Weaving



Often sets works in her hometown of Chicago



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The Wachowskis included in their contracts for the Matrix sequels that they would not have to do press junkets or interviews of any kind and they would not have to be photographed for promotional purposes. They want the films to speak for themselves.



Ranked #27 in Premiere's 2003 annual Power 100 List with sister Lilly. Had ranked #89 in 2002.





Estranged wife Thea Bloom was her college sweetheart. She left Bloom in 2002 for Ilsa Strix (aka Karin Winslow).

Father was a businessman; mother was a nurse.



She and her sister have written a screenplay called "Carnivore". The script was one of the scripts on Empire magazine's "Twelve Greatest Unproduced Scripts In Hollywood" list. (As of October 2003 it is still unproduced.).



Attended Whitney M. Young Magnet High School along with her sister Lilly Wachowski in Chicago, Illinois.



Understood to have had gender reassignment surgery after "Speed Racer" in 2008. Her first public interview after revealing herself as Lana came at a press conference to discuss 'Cloud Atlas', where she fielded questions about her private life with resigned good humor. Her sister Lilly, to whom she is very close, is fiercely protective of her and supportive of her struggle to live as her authentic gender. Lilly herself came out as transgender in 2016.





She is the niece of Laurence Luckinbill



Sister Lilly Wachowski revealed on March 8, 2016, that she was transgender as well. She was formerly known as Andy Wachowski.

Supported Bernie Sanders in the 2016 Presidential election.



She is a big video game fan.



She and her sister Lilly ran a House Painting and Construction business in Chicago before Their writing career took off.



She was a big fan of Dungeons & Dragons as a teenager.



She has two other sisters besides Lilly: Julie and Laura.



She attended Bard College in New York but dropped out before graduating.



She and her sister were given the option of directing Batman Begins (2005) or doing sequels to The Matrix (1999). They ultimately decided to do the sequels.





She has directed one film that has been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: Matrix (1999).

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I chose to change my exterior to bring it closer into alignment with my interior. My biggest fears were all about losing my family. Once they accepted me, everything else has been a piece of cake.



For years, I couldn't even say the words transgendered or transsexual. When I began to admit it to myself, I knew I would eventually have to tell my parents and my brother and my sisters. This fact would inject such terror into me that I would not sleep for days.



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