Mark Illsley

Mark Illsley is a film director best known for writing and directing the film Happy, [Texas (film)|Happy, Texas], which starred William H. Macy and Steve Zahn, and directing Bookies.
Illsley was raised in Santa Rosa, California where he made films as a teen with a Super-8 camera. He graduated from the USC [School of Cinematic Arts|USC School of Cinema-Television] in 1981, where he met and started working relationship with Kevin Reynolds.
Happy, Texas triggered a bidding war that played out at the 1999 Sundance [Film Festival], with Harvey Weinstein and Miramax beating out other suitors, which included Fox Searchlight, Paramount Classics and New [Line Cinema].
He married his wife Jill Zimmerman on September 29, 2001. They divorced in 2016.
He is the son of Rolf Illsley