Clement-Jones family - Person Sheet
Clement-Jones family - Person Sheet
NameLord Julian Alexander FELLOWES, LATER KITCHENER-FELLOWES of West Stafford , 1076
Birth1949
OccupationActor and writer
Spouses
Birth1963
FatherCharles Eaton KITCHENER , 1072 (1920-1982)
MotherUrsula Hope LUCK , 1073
ChildrenPeregrine Charles Morant , 1077 (1991-)
Notes for Lord Julian Alexander FELLOWES, LATER KITCHENER-FELLOWES of West Stafford
The well known actor and writer.Won the Oscar for his sreen play for Gosford Park 2002.

From Wikipedia

Julian Alexander Kitchener-Fellowes, Baron Fellowes of West Stafford, DL[1] (born 17 August 1949), known as Julian Fellowes, is an English actor, novelist, film director and screenwriter.

Early life

Julian Alexander 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.[2] Julian Fellowes' father later left the Foreign Office to work for Royal Dutch Shell. From 1960 to 1962 he was the head of Shell in Nigeria. His wife and sons joined him there.[3] After the death of his first wife, Peregrine Fellowes remarried in 1982, to Lady Maureen Thérèse Josephine Noel, daughter of the 4th Earl of Gainsborough and widow of the 15th Lord Dormer. Peregrine Fellowes died on 15th February 1999, and Lady Maureen Fellowes died on 25 November 2009.

Education

Fellowes was educated in the UK: at the Wetherby School (Wetherby Place, South Kensington, London); at St. Philip's, a Roman Catholic pre-preparatory school, also in Wetherby Place; and at Ampleforth College. He went up to Magdalene College at the University of Cambridge in Cambridge where he was a member of Footlights,[3] followed by the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art (London).
[edit]Career

Television

Fellowes played the part of Kilwillie in the television series Monarch of the Glen. Other notable acting roles included the part of Claud Seabrook in the acclaimed 1996 BBC drama serial Our Friends in the North and the second Duke of Richmond in the BBC drama serial Aristocrats.

In 1991, he played Neville Marsham in For the Greater Good, again for the BBC, directed by Danny Boyle. He has twice notably portrayed George IV as the Prince Regent in the 1982 television version of The Scarlet Pimpernel and the 1996 adaptation of Bernard Cornwell's novel Sharpe's Regiment. He launched a new series on BBC One in 2004, Julian Fellowes investigates: a most mysterious murder, which he wrote and introduced onscreen. He was the presenter of Never mind the full stops, a panel-based gameshow transmitted on BBC Four from 2006 to 2007. He created Downton Abbey on Britain's television channel ITV1 in 2010.[4]

Film

As an actor, Fellowes has appeared in several films, including Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend with Patrick McGoohan, Damage with Jeremy Irons, Place Vendôme with Catherine Deneuve and Tomorrow Never Dies with Pierce Brosnan. As a screenwriter, he wrote the script for Gosford Park, directed by Robert Altman and won the Oscar for Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen in 2002. In late 2005, Fellowes made his directorial debut with the film Separate Lies, for which he won the award for Best Directorial Debut from the National Board of Review.

2009 saw the release of Young Victoria, starring Emily Blunt, for which he wrote the original script. Other screenwriting credits include Vanity Fair, The Tourist and From Time to Time, which he also directed, and which won Best Picture at the Chicago Children's Film Festival, the Youth Jury Award at the Seattle International Film Festival, Best Picture at the Fiuggi Family Festival in Rome and the Young Jury Award at Cinemagic in Belfast.

Novels
His novel Snobs was published in 2004. It focused on the social nuances of the upper class and concerned the marriage of an upper-middle class girl to a peer. Snobs was a Sunday Times Best Seller. In 2009 he published the novel, Past Imperfect, also a Sunday Times Best Seller. It deals with the Debutante Season of 1968, comparing the world then to the world of 2008.

Theatre
As an actor, he appeared in several West End productions, including Samuel Taylor's A Touch of Spring, Alan Ayckbourn's Joking Apart and a revival of Noel Coward's Present Laughter. As a writer, Fellowes penned the script to the current West End musical Mary Poppins, produced by Sir Cameron Mackintosh and Disney, which opened on Broadway in December 2006.

House of Lords
On 19 November 2010, it was announced that Fellowes was to be made a member of the House of Lords as part of the New Years Honours List 2010/2011. He took up his seat as Baron Fellowes of West Stafford on 13 January 2011[5]. He sits on the Conservative Party benches, as a long-term supporter of the Tories.

Fellowes's other interests
Fellowes is the Chairman of the RNIB appeal for Talking Books. He is a Vice President of the Weldmar Hospicecare Trust, Patron of the South West branch of Age UK, Patron of Changing Faces, of Living Paintings, of the Rainbow Trust, and of Breast Cancer Haven, as well as supporting charities concerned with the care of those suffering from Alzheimer's disease, and other causes.

Fellowes is on the Appeal Council for the National Memorial Arboretum and he is also the Patron of Moviola, an initiative to facilitate rural cinema screenings in the West Country.[7]
[edit]Family

On 28 April 1990, Fellowes married Emma Joy Kitchener, LVO (a Lady-in-Waiting to Princess Michael of Kent), the great-great-niece of the 1st Earl Kitchener, and subsequently changed his name to Kitchener-Fellowes. They have one son, Peregrine, born 1991. The family resides in Dorset.[9] In 2009, Fellowes was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of the county. He is also the Lord of the Manor of Tattershall in Lincolnshire.
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