Mark Illsley
American film director / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mark Illsley (born June 4, 1958) is a film director best known for writing and directing the film Happy, Texas, which starred William H. Macy and Steve Zahn, and directing Bookies.
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Born | (1958-06-04) June 4, 1958 (age 65) |
Occupation(s) | Film director, screenwriter |
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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 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.[1]
He married his wife Jill Zimmerman on September 29, 2001. They divorced in 2016.[2] He is the son of Rolf Illsley