Julian Fellowes, actor, writer, lecturer, producer, was educated at Ampleforth College in Yorkshire and Magdalene College, Cambridge.   He is probably best known for his portrayal of the incorrigible Lord Kilwillie in the BBC drama Monarch of the Glen. Other credits include Our Friends in the North and Sharpe's Regiment as well as Shadowlands, Damage and Tomorrow Never Dies on the big screen.  His screenplay for Gosford Park, directed by Robert Altman, won the Oscar for that year as well as several other major awards.  He has just completed a screenplay for Universal Pictures as well as working on a new version of Vanity Fair for Granada Films.  Julian is married to Emma, nee Kitchener, a lady-in-waiting to HRH Princess Michael of Kent.  They have a son called Peregrine and a dachsund called Fudge.

Favourite books: Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte; Our Bones are Scattered: The Cawnpore Massacres and the Indian Mutiny of 1857 by Andrew Ward; Earthly Powers by Anthony Burgess; The Chimneys of Green Knowe by Lucy M Boston