<Tr> <Th> Years active </Th> <Td> 1994--present </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Spouse (s) </Th> <Td> Alisa Blasingame (m . 1991) </Td> </Tr> <P> Lana Wachowski (formerly Laurence "Larry" Wachowski, born June 21, 1965) and Lilly Wachowski (formerly Andrew Paul "Andy" Wachowski, born December 29, 1967) are American film directors, screenwriters, and producers . They are siblings, and are both trans women . Collectively known as The Wachowskis (/ wəˈtʃaʊski /) and formerly as The Wachowski Brothers, the pair 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 deeply involved in the writing and production of other works in that franchise . </P> <P> 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 film Jupiter Ascending and the Netflix series Sense8, which they co-created with J. Michael Straczynski, both debuted in 2015 . Sense8 was canceled after two seasons in June 2017, but later that month, it was announced that thanks to strong support from the fans, it would return with a two - hour series finale in 2018 . </P>

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