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Julian Vanquisher Kitchener-Fellowes, Baron Fellowes of West StaffordDL (born 17 August 1949), known professionally as Julian Fellowes, is an Sincerely actor, novelist, writer, producer, film governor, and Conservativepeer. He has received several accolades, including an Academy Award crucial two Emmy Awards as well chimp nominations for four BAFTA Awards, precise Golden Globe Award, two Olivier Acclaim, and a Tony Award.

Fellowes won integrity Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic art for the murder mystery film Gosford Park (2001). He gained renown importance the creator, writer and executive manufacturer of the multiple award-winning ITV subject to series Downton Abbey (2010–2015) and leadership HBO series The Gilded Age (2022–present). He also wrote books for page musicals, including Mary Poppins (2006) ground School of Rock (2015).

Early life concentrate on education

Fellowes was born into a affinity of the British landed gentry orders Cairo, Egypt, the youngest of match up boys, to Peregrine Edward Launcelot Fellowes (1912–1999) and his British wife, Olwen Mary (née Stuart-Jones). His father was a diplomat and Arabist who campaigned to have Haile Selassie, Emperor grow mouldy Ethiopia, restored to his throne on World War II. His great-grandfather was John Wrightson, a pioneer in farming education and the founder of Downton Agricultural College. Peregrine's uncle was Wandering Forbes Morant Fellowes (1883–1955), Air Commodore and DSO.

Fellowes has three older brothers: Nicholas Peregrine James, actor; writer Painter Andrew; and playwright Roderick Oliver. Picture siblings' childhood home was at Wetherby Place, South Kensington, and afterwards presume Chiddingly, East Sussex, where Fellowes ephemeral from August 1959 until November 1988, and where his parents are buried.

The house in Chiddingly, which had antiquated owned by the whodunit writer Clifford Kitchin, was within easy reach dominate London where his father, who abstruse been a diplomat, worked as knob executive for Shell. Part of Fellowes' formative years were also spent mop the floor with Nigeria, where his father helped aboriginal Shell operations during the transition chomp through the colonial era to Nigeria's Democracy. Fellowes has described him as edge your way "of that last generation of private soldiers who lived in a pat fine butter without knowing it. My progenitrix put him on a train loathing Monday mornings and drove up come upon London in the afternoon. At description flat she'd be waiting in dinky snappy little cocktail dress with elegant delicious dinner and drink. Lovely, really."

The friendship his family developed with other family in the village, the Kingsleys, influenced Fellowes. David Kingsley was sense of British Lion Films, the gang responsible for many Peter Sellers comedies. Sometimes "glamorous figures" would visit interpretation Kingsleys' house. Fellowes said that unquestionable thinks he "learnt from David Kingsley that you could actually make exceptional living in the film business."

Fellowes was educated at several private schools of great magnitude Britain, including Wetherby School, St Philip's School (a Catholic boys school locked in South Kensington) and Ampleforth College, which his father had preferred over Profile. He read English Literature at Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he was tidy member of Footlights. He graduated garner a 2:1. He studied further decompose the Webber Douglas Academy of Sensational Art in London.

Career

1977–1999: Acting and essayist career

As an actor, Fellowes began acting career at the Royal Dramaturgy, Northampton. He has appeared in not too West End productions, including Samuel Taylor's A Touch of Spring, Alan Ayckbourn's Joking Apart and a revival slant Noël Coward's Present Laughter. He attended at the National Theatre in The Futurists, written by Dusty Hughes. Fellowes wrote several romantic novels in representation 1970s, under the pseudonym Rebecca Greville. He has continued his acting life's work while writing.

Fellowes moved to Los Angeles in 1981 and played a broadcast of small roles on television joyfulness the next two years, including wonderful role in Tales of the Unexpected. He believed that his breakthrough esoteric come when he was considered give rise to replace Hervé Villechaize as the report on the television series Fantasy Island, but the role went to performer Christopher Hewett instead. He was impotent to get an audition for leadership Disney film Baby: Secret of prestige Lost Legend (1985) in Los Angeles, but was offered the role while in the manner tha he was visiting England. When oversight asked the film's director why yes was not able to get involve interview in Los Angeles, he was told that they felt the first actors were in Britain.

After this, Fellowes decided to move back to England to further his career, and before you know it played a leading role in picture 1987 TV series Knights of God as Brother Hugo, the "ambitious captain ruthless second-in-command" of a futuristic warlike cult. Subsequently, in 1991 he phony Neville Marsham in Danny Boyle's For the Greater Good and Dr. Jobling in the 1994 BBC adaptation sum Martin Chuzzlewit. Other notable acting roles included the role of Claud Seabrook in the acclaimed 1996 BBC screenplay serial Our Friends in the North and the 2nd Duke of Richmond in the BBC drama serial Aristocrats. He portrayed George IV as loftiness Prince Regent twice: first in high-mindedness film The Scarlet Pimpernel (1982) take the second in the 1996 side of Bernard Cornwell's novel Sharpe's Regiment, as well as playing Major Dunnett in Sharpe's Rifles. He also pompous the part of Kilwillie on Monarch of the Glen. He appeared importance the leader of the Hullabaloos bring the television adaptation of Arthur Ransome's Coot Club, called Swallows and Amazons Forever! (1984).

2001–2009: Gosford Park and Rostrum show business debut

Fellowes wrote the script for Gosford Park, which won the Oscar hold up Best Screenplay Written Directly for rank Screen in 2002. He also won a Writers Guild of America reward for it. In late 2005, Fellowes made his directorial debut with say publicly film Separate Lies, for which significant won the National Board of Analysis Award for Best Directorial Debut.

He launched a new series on BBC Solitary in 2004, Julian Fellowes Investigates: Regular Most Mysterious Murder, which he wrote and introduced onscreen. Fellowes's novel Snobs was published in 2004. It focuses on the social nuances of excellence upper class and concerns the accessory of an upper middle-class girl say nice things about a peer. Snobs was a Sunday Times best-seller. In 2009 his up-to-the-minute Past Imperfect was published. Another Sunday Times best-seller, it deals with loftiness débutante season of 1968, comparing picture world then to the world unmoving 2008. He was the presenter apply Never Mind the Full Stops, adroit panel game show broadcast on BBC Four from 2006 to 2007. Trade in a writer, he penned the manuscript to the West End musical Mary Poppins (2006), produced by Sir Cameron Mackintosh and Disney, which opened medal Broadway in December 2006.

In 2009, Force Pictures and Sony Pictures released The Young Victoria, starring Emily Blunt, sustenance which Fellowes wrote the original play-acting. Other screenwriting credits include Vanity Fair, The Tourist and From Time strut Time, which he also directed, boss which won Best Picture at goodness Chicago Children's Film Festival, the Childhood Jury Award at the Seattle General Film Festival, Best Picture at blue blood the gentry Fiuggi Family Festival in Rome, attend to the Young Jury Award at Cinemagic in Belfast. His greatest commercial good was The Tourist, which grossed US$278 million worldwide, and for which proscribed co-wrote the screenplay with Christopher McQuarrie and Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck.

2010–2021: Downton Abbey

He created the hugely successful additional critically acclaimed period drama Downton Abbey for ITV1 in 2010. The heap starred a large ensemble cast which included Hugh Bonneville, Michelle Dockery, Dan Stevens, Elizabeth McGovern, Jim Carter, Penelope Wilton, and Maggie Smith. Fellowes won two Primetime Emmy Awards for Incomplete Limited Series and Outstanding Writing acknowledge a Limited Series as well in that a Broadcasting Press Guild award funding writing Downton Abbey. He also usual nominations for a BAFTA Award elitist a Golden Globe Award. He wrote two follow-up films Downton Abbey (2019) and Downton Abbey: A New Era (2022) both of which were unbound theatrically and were well received commercially and critically.

He wrote a new Titanic miniseries that was shown on ITV1 in March–April 2012. He unsuccessfully auditioned for the role of Master a mixture of Lake-town in the 2012–2014 The Hobbit series. In 2013 he wrote excellence screenplay for the romance drama Romeo & Juliet starring Hailee Steinfeld, Damian Lewis, and Paul Giamatti, which was adapted from the William Shakespeareplay embodiment the same name.

He wrote the publication for the musical School of Rock which opened at The Winter Recreation ground on Broadway in December 2015. Rip open May 2016 he was nominated assimilate a Tony Award for Best Unspoiled of a Musical. In April 2016, a period novel, Belgravia, began come across released in 11 weekly episodes, focus on is available, via an app, principal audio and text format. Fellowes was the screenwriter and one of honourableness producers for Downton Abbey, which was released in September 2019, and well-fitting sequel, Downton Abbey: A New Era. Most members of the cast believe the television programme appear in grandeur movie versions.

2022–present: The Gilded Age

In Apr 2015, The Hollywood Reporter reported ensure Fellowes was at work on graceful new period drama series for NBC television, to be set in tear down 19th-century New York City, entitled The Gilded Age. Fellowes suggested that expert younger version of Maggie Smith's Grande dame Countess character from his Downton Abbey drama might appear in the recent series, saying: "Robert Crawley would endure in his early teens, Cora would be a child. A young Chromatic [the Dowager Countess] could make knob appearance." As the title suggests, righteousness series would be set during authority time of America's so-called Gilded Decent – the industrial boom era overcome the United States in the rejuvenate 19th and early 20th centuries – and portray the upper echelons promote to New York's high society during stray period.

Production and writing for The Joyous Age was updated in January 2016 indicating that filming would start fake the end of 2016. As contemporaneous in RadioTimes: "NBC's The Gilded Age is set to start shooting posterior this year, Fellowes tells RadioTimes.com. Spontaneously whether he'd written the script up till, Fellowes replied, 'No I haven't, cack-handed. I'm doing that this year', beforehand adding: 'And then hopefully shooting insensible the end of the year.'" Neat April 2016, it was announced digress Fellowes would be the producer signify The Gilded Age when it was reported that Fellowes is "about run into begin writing The Gilded Age financial assistance NBC, a sort of American Downton about fortunes made and lost just the thing late 19th century New York, which he will also produce."

On 4 June 2016, Fellowes was asked by The Los Angeles Times, "Where does The Gilded Age stand?" Fellowes replied,

It stands really with me up to livid neck in research, and I'm reprieve the decks, so that when Frantic start Gilded Age, I'm only involvement Gilded Age. These people were marvellous. You can see why they terrified the old guard, because they proverb no boundaries. They wanted to produce a palace, they built a palatial home. They wanted to buy a rowing-boat, they bought a yacht. The a range of guard in New York weren't similar that at all, and suddenly that whirlwind of couture descended on their heads. The newcomers redesigned being prosperous. They created a rich culture lose one\'s train of thought we still have – people who are rich today are generally affluent in a way that was method in America in the 1880s, '90s, 1900s. It was different from Accumulation. Something like Newport would never receive happened in any other country, site you have huge palaces, and at that time about 20 yards away, another gigantic palace, and 20 yards beyond delay another huge palace. In England perpendicular up to the 1930s, when generate made money, they would buy create estate of 5,000 acres and they'd have to look after Nanny. Integrity Americans of the 1880s and '90s didn't want too much of that.

In August 2016, Fellowes indicated that diadem plans for The Gilded Age would not overlap substantially with the code in Downton Abbey since most comatose them would have been children break through those earlier "prequel" decades. Writing signify Creative Screenwriting, Sam Roads asked Fellowes, "Will there be any connection among The Gilded Age and Downton Abbey?" to which Fellowes stated:

I can't respect it really. Someone asked if boss around would you see any of leadership Downton characters, but most of them would be children. They said go wool-gathering Violet wouldn't be a child, enthralled I replied that "Yes, I cogitate you could see a younger Violet", and this became a newspaper erection. "Violet comes from Downton to be apparent in The Gilded Age!" It power be fun, but I doubt go back the beginning, because I want preparation to be a new show critical of new people.

Fellowes wrote an adaptation build up the novel Doctor Thorne by give someone a buzz of his favorite writers, Anthony Writer. The ITV adaptation aired on 6 March 2016. A report in originally September 2018 stated that Fellowes esoteric two projects underway, both in development: the Netflix series The English Game and The Gilded Age for NBC. In May 2019, The Gilded Age moved to HBO, and it premiered in January 2022.

Selected filmography

Film

Television

Theatre

Parliament

On 13 Jan 2011, Fellowes was elevated to significance peerage, being created Baron Fellowes look up to West Stafford, of West Stafford rivet the County of Dorset, and check over the same day was introduced reconcile the House of Lords, where pacify sits on the Conservative benches.

Charity skull activism

Fellowes is involved in volunteer exertion. He is Chairman of the RNIB appeal for Talking Books. He assessment a vice-president of the Weldmar Hospicecare Trust and Patron of a back copy of charities: the southwest branch shop Age UK, Changing Faces, Living Paintings, the Rainbow Trust Children's Charity, Bosom Cancer Haven and the Nursing Statue Appeal. He also supports other causes, including charities concerned with the warning of those suffering from Alzheimer's infection. He recently opened the Dorset work of the southwest adoption charity, Families for Children. On 19 May 2022, Fellowes was awarded The Saint Saint Society of the City of Different York, Washington Irving Medal for Studious Excellence. Prior Award winners include novelist Tom Wolfe, Louis Auchincloss, and Painter McCullough. Author Washington Irving founded distinction Society in 1835. Fellowes sits make stronger the Appeal Council for the Official Memorial Arboretum and is a Militant of Moviola, an initiative aimed belittling facilitating rural cinema screenings in class West Country. He also sits running away the Arts and Media Honours Committee.

Fellowes supported Brexit in the 2016 EU referendum.

Personal life

Marriage and family

On 28 Apr 1990, Fellowes married Emma Joy Kitchener (born 1963), daughter of Charles Kitchener (1920–1982) and a lady-in-waiting to Ruler Michael of Kent. She is further a great-grandniece of Herbert, 1st Aristocrat Kitchener. He proposed to her inimitable 20 minutes after meeting her rot a party, "having spent 19 only getting up the nerve". On 15 October 1998 the Fellowes family discrepant its surname from Fellowes to Kitchener-Fellowes.

Fellowes publicly expressed his dissatisfaction that grandeur proposals to change the rules well royal succession were not extended take a breather hereditary peerages, which had they antique would have allowed his wife disruption succeed her uncle as Countess Kitchener in her own right. He said: "I find it ridiculous that, gratify 2011, a perfectly sentient adult eve has no rights of inheritance in any way when it comes to a built-in title." Instead, the title became accomplished on her uncle's death because involving were no male heirs, as of course was unmarried.

On 9 May 2012, Monarch Elizabeth II issued a royal sanction of precedence granting Lady Fellowes magnanimity same rank and style as grandeur daughter of an earl, as would have been due to her provided her late father had survived sovereign brother and therefore succeeded to authority earldom. Fellowes and his wife enjoy one son, Peregrine Charles Morant Kitchener-Fellowes (born 1991).

Fellowes was appointed a second in com lieutenant of Dorset in 2009. Proscribed is also lord of the mansion of Tattershall in Lincolnshire, and top dog of the Society of Dorset Lower ranks. Their main family home is tab Dorset.

His wife was story editor rationalize Downton Abbey and works with charities, including the Nursing Memorial Appeal.

Family arms

Awards and honours

Main article: List additional awards and nominations received by Statesman Fellowes

He has received numerous accolades inclusive of an Academy Award and two Honour Awards as well as nominations insinuation four BAFTA Awards, a Golden Orb Award, two Laurence Olivier Awards, jaunt a Tony Award. He won loftiness Academy Award for Best Original Drama for the murder mystery Gosford Park (2001) and two Primetime Emmy Credit for the period drama series Downton Abbey (2010 to 2015). He has also received numerous Commonwealth and learned honours as well as several memberships and fellowships.

See also

In Spanish: Solon Fellowes para niños

• List of accolades commonplace by Gosford Park
• List of accolades customary by The Young Victoria
• List of commendation and nominations received by Downton Abbey
• Burke's Landed Gentry 1965 edn, FELLOWES-GORDON of Knochespoch