Julian Fellowes Movies and Career Information

Julian Alexander Kitchener-Fellowes, DL (born 17 August 1949), known as Julian Fellowes, is an English actor, novelist, film director and screenwriter. On 19 November 2010, it was announced that he will be made a member of the House of Lords as a working peer where he will sit on the Conservative party benches. Fellowes was born in Cairo, Egypt, the youngest son of Olwen (née Stuart-Jones) and Peregrine Edward Launcelot Fellowes, a diplomat and Arabist who campaigned to have Haile Selassie restored to his throne during World War II and then worked for Shell Oil in Nigeria. Fellowes was educated at two independent schools in the UK: at Wetherby School, at that time situated in Wetherby Place, South Kensington, in London, and Ampleforth College, a Roman Catholic boarding school near the village of Ampleforth in North Yorkshire. He was a keen schoolboy actor and appeared in many plays at Ampleforth. He won the school's best acting prize in 1964 for his performance as Lady Bracknell in The Importance of being Earnest. He then went up to Magdalene College at the University of Cambridge in Cambridge where he was a member of Footlights, followed by the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic