Julian Fellowes

Julian Fellowes (The Right Honourable, The Lord Fellowes of West Stratford) is best known as the author of several best-seller novels. His screenplay for the film Gosford Park, won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 2002. He is also the creator, writer and executive producer of the multi award winning series Downton Abbey.

If you are lucky, you have your moment. But it is never more than a moment. You have to enjoy it while it lasts.

In 2009, Momentum Pictures and Sony Pictures released The Young Victoria, starring Emily Blunt, for which Fellowes wrote the original screenplay. Other screenwriting credits include Vanity Fair, The Tourist and From Time to Time, which he also directed.

School visits are something that I do fairly often; I always say to the students that somebody has got to end up with the interesting careers, so why not them?

He wrote the script for the West End musical Mary Poppins, produced by Sir Cameron Mackintosh and Disney, which opened on Broadway in December 2006. Fellowes also wrote the book for the musical School of Rock which opened at The Winter Garden on Broadway in December 2015.

Every writer has to make an emotional journey from artist sitting in attic to being part of a business. The writer of a film is like Tinkerbell. You are only there because people believe in you. The moment they don't, because you're a pain in the arse, you've lost.

On 13 January 2011, he was elevated to the peerage, being created Baron Fellowes of West Stafford, of West Stafford in the County of Dorset and on the same day was introduced in the House of Lords, where he sits on the Conservative Benches.

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