Trivia

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.

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

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.

Understood to have had gender confirmation 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 sister Lilly Wachowski ran a house-painting and construction business in Chicago before their writing career took off.

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).

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

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

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

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

She is a big video game fan.

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

Supported Bernie Sanders in the 2016 presidential election.

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

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

Father was a businessman; mother was a nurse.

Sister of Lilly Wachowski.

She is a niece of Laurence Luckinbill.

Her father was of Polish descent and her mother had English, Scots-Irish, German, and French ancestry.