Julian Fellowes
Julian Alexander Kitchener- Fellowes, Baron Fellowes of West Stafford ( born August 17, 1949 in Cairo, Egypt ) is a British actor, screenwriter and novelist as well as peer of the House of Lords.
Life
Julian Fellowes was born as the youngest of five sons of Peregrine Edward Launcelot Fellowes and his wife Olwen Stuart Jones in Cairo. His parents, diplomat by profession, helped among other things, the deposed by Benito Mussolini Emperor of Ethiopia, Haile Selassie back on his throne. At Julian's brothers include the actor and author David Fellowes Fellowes, and Rory, who is also involved in the film industry in the field of visual effects. The family belongs to the British aristocracy, to the ancestors include Sir James Fellowes, a doctor on the staff of King George III. , And Sir Thomas Fellowes, an admiral who served under Nelson.
Shortly after Julian's birth, the family returned to England, where Fellowes pupils at Ampleforth College in North Yorkshire, as well as a student at Magdalene College, Cambridge was. He also studied acting at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art
His livelihood, he financed occasionally with the writing of history romances ( Boddice rippers ) under the pseudonym Rebecca Greville, aimed primarily at a female audience, and which he regarded in retrospect as an exercise for his later screenplays and novels. Fellowes ' career as an actor began in predominantly British film and television productions. In 1981 he was in the bunker as the German Luftwaffe adjutant Nicolaus von Below in front of the camera, and the same year in the Bible filming Peter and Paul as the Roman Emperor Nero. In 1997 he portrayed in James Bond 007 - Tomorrow Never Dies the British defense minister.
Fellowes has made as a scriptwriter and film director a name. Thus he wrote in the mid- 1990s, the TV mini-series Little Lord Fauntleroy and The Prince and the Pauper, which were made into successful films of the British Broadcasting Corporation ( BBC). His most best-known scenario is produced the 2001 film Gosford Park. 2002 Fellowes was awarded not only the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, but was also nominated for a Golden Globe Award and a BAFTA Award.
2005 Fellowes debuted with the drama Separate Lies also as a film director in 2009 with the children's book adaptation From Time to Time as a television director. 2010 Fellowes designed the series Downton Abbey (2010). The stories about the English noble family Crawley and the eponymous family seat at the beginning of the 20th century was a huge critical success and many awards include four Emmys, including Fellowes as the best screenwriter.
His first novel Snobs was published in 2004, followed in 2008 Past Imperfect ( A class of its own ), in which he ironically melancholy the life-world, the rituals and beliefs of the English nobility in the 19th and late 20th century describes.
Fellowes since January 2011 for the Conservative Party Member of the British House of Lords.
Julian Fellowes is married to Emma Kitchener- Fellowes in 1990, a maid of honor of HRH Princess Michael of Kent, born Baroness von Reibnitz. 1991 her son Peregrine Kitchener- Fellowes was born.
Filmography (selection)
Actor
Screenwriter
- 2001: Gosford Park
- 2004: Vanity Fair - Vanity Fair ( Vanity Fair )
- 2009: The Young Victoria ( The Young Victoria)
- 2010: Downton Abbey
- 2012: Titanic ( TV series)
Director
- 2005: Lies ( Separate Lies)
- 2009: From Time to Time
Novels
- Snobs. 2004; German snobs. C. Bertelsmann Verlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-570-00895-9.
- Past Imperfect. 2008; ger a class by itself. C. Bertelsmann Verlag, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-570-10015-8.
Awards (selection)
- 2002: Oscar for Gosford Park
- 2002: BAFTA Award for Gosford Park
- 2011: Emmy Award for Downton Abbey
- 2012: Golden Globe (Best TV mini-series ) for Downton Abbey