The Wachowski Brothers

The Wachowskis

Lilly (left) and Lana Wachowski at the Fantastic Fest screening of Cloud Atlas in September 2012
Known for	The Matrix series V for Vendetta Speed Racer Cloud Atlas Jupiter Ascending Sense8

Lana Wachowski (formerly Laurence "Larry" Wachowski, born June 21, 1965) and Lilly Wachowski (formerly Andrew Paul "Andy" Wachowski, born December 29, 1967) are sister American film directors, screenwriters, and producers. They are both trans women. Known together professionally as The Wachowskis and formerly as The Wachowski Brothers, the pair made their directing debut in 1996 with Bound, and reached 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 deeply involved in the writing and production of other works in the franchise.

Following the commercial success of The Matrix series, they wrote and produced the 2006 film V for Vendetta (an adaptation of the comic of the same name by Alan Moore), and in 2008 released the film Speed Racer, which was a live-action adaptation of the Japanese anime series of the same name. Their next film, Cloud Atlas, based on the novel of the same name by David Mitchell and co-written and co-directed by Tom Tykwer, was released in 2012. Their most recent works are the film Jupiter Ascending and the Netflix series Sense8, both of which debuted in 2015. The second season of Sense8 returned to Netflix with a Christmas special on December 23, 2016 with the remainder scheduled for May 5, 2017.