Fledgling deliberate at Queen's University, Belfast before giving up his degree course to go into acting. He was already the successful stage actor prior to making his film debut around the bit part around Amadeus in 1984 (having played Mozart in the original stage production at the Royal National Theatre).

By his thirties, Callow was swimming character & typically risible area. He starred inside many series of the Channel 4 sitcom, Chance in a Million, as Tom Risk, an eccentric single to whom coincidences happened regularly. Ironically, roles rather this & his section inside Four Weddings and a Funeral brought him a wider audience than his several critically-acclaimed stage appearances. At a equivalent instance, he was successful each as a director & as a writer — mostly of works just about acting.

One of Fledgling's right-known works is Love Is In which It Lessens, the poignant analysis of his eleven-month relationship sustaining Peggy Ramsay, the large theatrical professional. He has besides written extensively all about Charles Dickens, whom he has played in the of these-one-woman indicate in stage, reading from either Dickens' functiin, & on television many days, including in The Unquiet Dead, a 2005 episode of the BBC science-fiction series Doctor Who.

Fledgling is as well one of a virtually all large openly gay actors around Brittain.

Inside 1999, he was awarded the CBE for his services to acting.

His number one TV role was within Carry On Laughing episode Orgy and Bess, within 1975, but it was apparently cut from either a final print.

He appeared by having Saeed Jaffrey in 1994 British television series Little Napoleons.

Around 2004, he appeared on the Comic Relief episode of Little Britain for charity causes.

Selected filmography
Flushed Away (2006) (voice) The Phantom of the Opera (2004) Shoebox Zoo (2004) (TV series) (voice) Angels in America (2003) (TV) Bright Young Things (2003) Thunderpants (2002) ''No Man's Land (2001) Christmas Carol: The Movie (2001) (voice) Notting Hill (1999) (uncredited) Shakespeare in Love (1998) James and the Giant Peach (1996) (voice) Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls (1995) Jefferson in Paris (1995) Street Fighter (1994) Little Napoleons (1994) (miniseries) Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) Howards End (1992) (uncredited) Postcards from the Edge (1990) Maurice (1987) A Room with a View (1985) Amadeus (1984) Chance in a Million'' (1984) (TV series)