Biografie

Stunning fight scenes, usually involving martial arts

Big-budget action sequences utilizing modern techniques of film making

Hot pink dreadlocks.

Often works with Bae Doona

Had a reputation as a recluse and almost never gave interviews prior to 2012

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.