Educated at Ampleforth and Magdalene College, Cambridge, Julian Fellowes is a multi-award-winning actor, writer, director, and producer. As creator, sole writer, and executive producer of the hit television series Downton Abbey, Fellowes has won three Emmy Awards.
Fellowes received the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Gosford Park (2002). His work was also honored by the Writer’s Guild of America, the New York Film Critics’ Circle, and the National Society of Film Critics for Best Screenplay. Other writing credits for film include Piccadilly Jim (2004), Vanity Fair (2004), Young Victoria (2009), The Tourist (2010), Romeo & Juliet (2013), and the upcoming three-part drama Doctor Thorne for ITV. Fellowes also directed the award-winning films Separate Lies and From Time to Time. Fellowes wrote the books for the Tony-nominated stage production of Mary Poppins and School of Rock—The Musical, which opened on Broadway in December 2015 and is written and produced by Andrew Lloyd Webber.
Fellowes has authored two novels: the international bestsellers Snobs (2005) and Past Imperfect (2008/2009).
Julian Fellowes became a life peer in 2011. He lives in Dorset and London with his wife, Emma.
EDITORIAL CONSULTANT: IMOGEN EDWARDS-JONES
An international bestselling author, columnist, and scriptwriter, Imogen Edwards-Jones is probably best known for the Babylon series of books, which sold over one million copies in the UK and went on to inspire the BBC1 hit TV series Hotel Babylon. She lives with her husband and two children in west London.
HISTORICAL CONSULTANT: LINDY WOODHEAD
Lindy Woodhead is the author of two acclaimed books, War Paint: Madame Helena Rubinstein and Miss Elizabeth Arden, Their Lives, Their Times, Their Rivalry (2003) and Shopping, Seduction & Mr. Selfridge (2007), which was adapted by Andrew Davies into the hugely successful Sunday night drama series Mr. Selfridge. Made by ITV Studios and coproduced with Masterpiece-PBS in the United States, Season One of Mr. Selfridge opened in January 2013 to an audience of 8.5 million. In June 2016, the Goodman Theatre, Chicago, will stage the world premiere of the musical based on War Paint. Married with two sons, Lindy divides her time between Oxfordshire and London and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.