- Born
- Birth nameAndrew Paul Wachowski
- Height6′ 3″ (1.91 m)
- Director, writer, and producer Lilly Wachowski was born in 1967 in Chicago, the daughter of Lynne, a nurse and painter, and Ron, a businessman. Lilly was educated at Kellogg Elementary School in Chicago, before moving on to Whitney M. Young High School. After graduating from high school, she attended Emerson College in Boston but dropped out.
Lilly teamed up with her older sibling, Lana Wachowski, and began working on films. Their first script was optioned and formed the basis for the film Assassins (1995). The Wachowskis went on to make their directorial debut with the self-written Bound (1996), which was well-received. They followed this with the smash hit The Matrix (1999) and went on to produce two successful sequels, The Matrix Reloaded (2003) and The Matrix Revolutions (2003).
Other projects include scripting and producing the cult hit V for Vendetta (2005), a live-action version of a Japanese anime series; Speed Racer (2008); Cloud Atlas (2012); and the ambitious epic Jupiter Ascending (2015).- IMDb mini biography by: Anonymous
- SpouseAlisa Blasingame(1991 - present)
- ParentsRon WachowskiLynne Wachowski
- RelativesLaura Wachowski(Sibling)Laurence Luckinbill(Aunt or Uncle)Lana Wachowski(Sibling)Julie Wachowski(Sibling)
- Frequently casts Joe Pantoliano.
- Uses overhead shots when crowds of people enter a room
- Cuts to the next scene by focusing on or entering an object.
- 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.
- March 8, 2016, revealed in a statement to the Windy City Times that she is transgender. Formerly known as Andy Wachowski, she now goes by the name of Lilly. This came almost four years after sister Lana Wachowski (formerly known as Larry Wachowski) had revealed to have undergone gender confirmation surgery.
- She and her sister Lana Wachowski 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.
- 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: The Matrix (1999).
- Her father was of Polish descent and her mother had English, Scots-Irish, German, and French ancestry.
- The Matrix Revolutions (2003) - $4,000,000 + gross points
- The Matrix Reloaded (2003) - $4,000,000 + gross points
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