theOscarSite Facts:
Birth Name:
  • Julian Alexander Fellowes
Birth Date:
  • 17 August 1949
Birthplace:
  • Cairo, Egypt
Quotes:
  • "I feel as if I'm in A Star Is Born and any moment Norman Maine will come up and whack me in the mouth." Upon receiving the Best Original Screenplay Oscar® in 2002
  • "I was rather a lazy student. My interests were Drama and taking girls to parties. However, they locked the college gates at 11 o'clock, and if you were out later than that, the girls would take off their party dresses, climb over the gates and then re-assemble themselves on the other side. A rather charming sight!"
Education:
  • Magdalane College, Cambridge University
Factoids:
  • Was on "University Challenge" representing Magdalane Cambridge when aged 19. He had a bad bout of flu whilst recording the show, having a temperature of 103 degrees, but his mother insisted he should still take part in the programme making.
  • In the 1970s, wrote romantic novels under the pseudonym Rebecca Greville.
  • Fellowes proposed to his wife 20 minutes after first meeting her.
  • Based Maggie Smith's character in Gosford Park on his great-aunt.
Significant Other:
  • Wife: Emma Kitchener-Fellowes; married 1990. She is great-great-niece of (General) Lord Kitchener and a lady-in-waiting to Princess Michael of Kent.
Family:
  • Son: Peregrine; born 1991.
Feature Film
Credits:
  • Acting:
    Shergar (1999)
    Place Vendôme (1998)
    Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
    Regeneration (1997)
    Jane Eyre (1996)
    Savage Hearts (1995)
    Sherwood's Travels (1994)
    Shadowlands (1993)
    Fatale (1992)
    Baby... Secret of the Lost Legend (1985)
    Priest of Love (1981)
    Damage (1974)
  • Writing:
    From Time to Time (2009)
    The Young Victoria (2008)
    Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell (2008)
    Vanity Fair (2004)
    Deux frères (2004, English dialogue)
    Picadilly Jim (2004)
    Gosford Park (2001)
Academy Awards®:
  •  Best Achievement in Writing (Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen) 2001: GOSFORD PARK

  • 1 nomination, 1 Award