Lilly Wachowski

American film director, screenwriter and producer.

She works with her sister Lana Wachowski (born Laurence "Larry" Wachowski). They are both openly transgender women. They made their directing debut in 1996 with Bound, and reached fame with their second film The Matrix (1999), 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 heavily 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, Speed Racer. Their 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 on 26 October 2012. Their most recent works are the film Jupiter Ascending and the television series Sense8 which both debuted in 2015.

In March 2016, Lilly Wachowski came out as a transgender woman, issuing a statement to the Windy City Times after a visit from a reporter from the Daily Mail newspaper.

Lilly has been married to Alisa Blasingame since 1991.