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  • NAME: Lana Wachowski
  • OCCUPATION: Activist, Filmmaker, Screenwriter
  • BIRTH DATE: June 21, 1965 (Age: 47)
  • EDUCATION: Whiney M. Young Magnet High School, Bard College
  • PLACE OF BIRTH: Chicago, Illinois
  • Originally: Laurence Wachowski
  • AKA: Larry Wachowski
  • AKA: Lana Wachowski
  • ZODIAC SIGN: Cancer

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Lana Wachowski, along with brother Andy, is a producer, director and screenwriter known for The Matrix film trilogy, V for Vendetta and Cloud Atlas.

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Also in 2012, Lana also began making public statements about her experience as a transgendered person. Openly living as a woman since 2000, she has talked about her outlook on gender during promotions for Atlas and in an eloquent gala speech for the Human Rights Campaign. She also received the HRC's Visibility Award in 2012.

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