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

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.

Understood to have had gender reassignment surgery after Speed Racer (2008) in 2008. Her first public interview after revealing herself as Lana came at a press conference to discuss Cloud Atlas (2012), at which she fielded questions about her private life with resigned good humor. Her sister Lilly Wachowski, with 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 and her Lilly Wachowski were given the option of directing Batman Begins (2005) or doing sequels to The Matrix (1999). They ultimately decided to do the sequels.

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

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

Lana Wachowski and her sister Lilly Wachowski, also known as the Wachowskis, are the duo behind such ground-breaking movies as The 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 (1995), was made into a movie, leading to a Warner Bros contract. After that time, the Wachowskis devoted themselves to their movie careers.