Portobello Road the road in the song "Portobello Belle" on their second album "Communiqué". The cult British children's book character Paddington Bear, featured in the books written by Michael Bond, enjoys visiting Portobello Market on a daily basis. His friend Mr. Gruber owns an antique shop on the Portobello Road, with whom Paddington has his elevenses every day. The Portobello Road and its colorful restaurants, pubs, and local culture is featured prominently in Martin Amis's 1989 dark satirical novel "London Fields." The street and its name also appeared regularly on the hit TV series "Minder". The board game "Portobello Market" is named
Imelda Staunton 2010. Recent film roles include the 2008 movie "A Bunch of Amateurs", in which she starred alongside Burt Reynolds, Derek Jacobi and Samantha Bond, and the character of Sonia Teichberg in Ang Lee's "Taking Woodstock" (2009). Staunton provided the voice of the Talking Flowers in "Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland" (2010), and played one of the lead roles in the ghost film "The Awakening" in 2011. In 2014, she co-starred in "Maleficent" as well as the British comedy-drama "Pride". In late 2014, she had a voice role in "Paddington", a film based on the Paddington Bear books by Michael Bond.