Julian Fellowes Net Worth

Julian Fellowes's Quotes

• Upon receiving the Best Original Screenplay Oscar in 2002: 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.
• 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!
• What I dislike about movie culture is that it often presents a parable of our problems - but the issues are all straightforward and the people are either nice or they're not. In real life, everyone falls between those perimeters, but not many American films operate in that gray area.
• When you make your first film, there is a hell of a lot to think about, and you've got to have a gut understanding of your material. It's not enough to say, 'I've met people like this.' You've got to know them inside out. So with Separate Lies I placed my characters in a class that I understand, but it doesn't mean that this is a film about class. It's about being trapped, about the consequences of our choices, and about lying.
• We live in an era of tremendous dishonesty where people, even nice people, will say things they know are not true because they want to be perceived as someone who thinks they are true. But I think this is dangerous. I think personal dishonesty in a society is as dangerous as it is in an individual. For most of us the biggest journey in life, and certainly the toughest journey, is towards self-knowledge.

Interesting Facts about Julian Fellowes

1. Based Maggie Smith's Gosford Park character on his great aunt.
2. Fellowes proposed to his wife Emma Joy 20 minutes after first meeting her. She is Lady-in-Waiting to HRH Princess Michael of Kent and was invested as a Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order (LVO) in 2000. Emma is a great-great-niece of (General) Lord Kitchener and on 9 May 2012 The Queen issued a Royal Warrant of Precedence granting The Lady Fellowes of West Stafford the same rank and title as a daughter of an Earl, as if her late father had survived his brother and therefore succeeded to the title of Earl Kitchener. She is also a vegetarian.
3. Father of Peregrine Kitchener-Fellowes, born 1991.
4. His ancestors include Sir James Fellowes, Physician to the Forces during the reign of Britain's George III, and Rear Admiral Sir Thomas Fellowes who served with Lord Nelson.
5. Was on University Challenge representing Magdalene College, Cambridge at age 19. He had a bad bout of flu while recording the show. With a temperature of 103 degrees, his mother insisted he still take part in the program.
6. In the 1970s, wrote romantic novels under the pseudonym Rebecca Greville.
7. Conducted a scriptwriting master class at the Cinemagic World Screen Festival for Young People in 2002 in Belfast, N.Ireland.
8. Is an avid follower of TV soap Coronation Street (1960).
9. Lives in Dorset, England, close to the cottage once owned by writer Thomas Hardy. His estate includes a manor house built in 1633 and a newer portion built in 1840, all on 50 acres.
10. His two dogs are named Meg and Humbug.
11. Uncle of Jessica Fellowes.
12. Youngest brother of four including David Fellowes and Rory Fellowes.
13. Was once a member of the Cambridge footlights comedy group. Other members through the years include Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, John Cleese, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Bill Oddie and Eric Idle.
14. He played Winston Churchill in both The Treaty (1991) and The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (1992).
15. On 12 January 2011, he was made a Life Peer of the United Kingdom of Great-Britain and Northern Ireland and is now formally known as Baron Fellowes of West Stafford, of West Stafford in the County of Dorset.
16. In 2009 he was made Deputy Lieutenant of the County of Dorset.
17. On 15 October 1998 he and his wife Emma Joy Kitchener (b. 18 February 1963) legally changed their family name to Kitchener-Fellowes by Deed Poll. He continued to be known professionally as Julian Fellowes. They live at Stafford House, West Stafford, Dorset.
18. In 1983 Julian almost landed a plum role on the TV series Fantasy Island (1977) where he was to be a possible replacement for Hervé Villechaize's butler. If he had got the part, it would have meant an 8-year contract and, as fate would have it, Downton Abbey (2010) might never have happened.
19. Is a big fan of the TV series Smash (2012).
20. In October 2014 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Winchester in recognition of his international reputation in creative writing and the performing arts.