Julian Fellowes
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The Right Honourable The Lord Fellowes of West Stafford DL |
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Lord Fellowes at an event for Downton Abbey at Paramount Studios, May 2014
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Assumed office 13 January 2011 |
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Julian Alexander Fellowes 17 August 1949 Cairo, Egypt |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Spouse(s) | Emma Joy Kitchener (1990–present) |
| Children | 1 |
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Magdalene, Cambridge Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art |
| Occupation | Actor, novelist, screenwriter, film director |
| Religion | Roman Catholicism |
Julian Alexander Kitchener-Fellowes, Baron Fellowes of West Stafford DL, (born 17 August 1949) is an English actor, novelist, film director and screenwriter, and a Conservative peer of the House of Lords. Fellowes is primarily known as the author of several Sunday Times best-seller novels; for the screenplay for the film Gosford Park, which won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 2002; and as the creator, writer and executive producer of the critically acclaimed and multiple award-winning ITV series Downton Abbey (2010–2015).
Fellowes was born in Cairo, Egypt, the youngest son of Canadian-born Peregrine Edward Launcelot Fellowes, and his British wife, Olwen Mary (née Stuart-Jones). His father was a diplomat and Arabist who campaigned to have Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia, restored to his throne during World War II.
Fellowes has three older brothers: Nicholas Peregrine James, wordsmith David Andrew, and playwright Roderick Oliver. The siblings' childhood home was at Wetherby Place, South Kensington, and afterwards at Chiddingly, East Sussex, where Fellowes lived from August 1959 until November 1988, and where his parents are buried.
The house in Chiddingly, which had been owned by the whodunit writer Clifford Kitchin, was within easy reach of London where his father, who had been a diplomat, worked for Shell. Fellowes has described his father as one "of that last generation of men who lived in a pat of butter without knowing it. My mother put him on a train on Monday mornings and drove up to London in the afternoon. At the flat she'd be waiting in a snappy little cocktail dress with a delicious dinner and drink. Lovely, really." A decided influence to arise from this place was the friendship that developed with another family in the village, the Kingsleys. David Kingsley was head of British Lion Films, the company responsible for many Peter Sellers comedies. Sometimes "glamorous figures" would visit the Kingsleys' house. Fellowes said that he thinks he "learnt from David Kingsley that you could actually make a living in the film business".
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