In her first public appearance since coming out as transgender Lilly Wachowski said: ‘Ta Da!’

Lilly Wachowski, half of the famous duo behind the Matrix movies, made her first public appearance over the weekend since coming out publicly as a transgender woman last month.

Wearing a floor-length black gown emerged from the back of the ballroom at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Saturday night, Wachowski took the stage at the GLAAD Media Awards to accept the prize for Outstanding Drama Series for Sense8.

‘Ta Da!’ she said to the star-studded crowd.

She thanked those who helped with her coming out including the people at GLAAD then added sarcastically ‘as well as the extremely courteous and sensitive people at the Daily Mail.’

She claims a reporter from the UK publication showed up on her doorstep wanting to do a story which essentially forced her to come out publicly.

‘My sister Julie likes to joke, “You can’t write this shit.”

Wachowski, ready from a prepared speech on paper, went on to say: ‘Inter-connectivity and serendipity, our relationship to each other past, present and future … Sense8 was born from this primordial, human stuff.

‘Where do we we find the courage to break free of the boxes in our lives, to transcend and overcome tragedy, the monsters within and the violence we do to ourselves when we are too afraid to be who we really are?’

Lilly’s sister and directing partner, Lana, came out as transgender in 2012.

‘There’s a critical eye being cast back at my and Lana’s work through the lens of our transness,’ she told the crowd. ‘This is a cool thing because it’s an excellent reminder that art is never static. And while the ideas of identity and transformation are critical components in our work, the bedrock that all ideas rest upon is love.’

Sense8, co-created by the Wachowskis, follows the lives of eight strangers around the world who all are mysteriously mentally and emotionally connected.

They include a transgender woman and a closeted gay man.

The show beat out a crowded field for the GLAAD Media Award that also included Arrow, Black Sails, Empire, The Fosters, Grey’s Anatomy, How To Get Away With Murder, Nashville, Orphan Black and Shameless.