Míriam Colón

Míriam Colón Valle (née Colón y Quiles; September 5, 1930 – March 3, 2017) was a Puerto Rican actress. She was the founder and director of New York City's Puerto Rican Traveling Theater. Beginning her career in the early 1950s, she performed on Broadway and on television. She appeared in several Hollywood films including The Appaloosa, The Possession of Joel Delaney, Backroads, Gloria and Lone Star and One-Eyed Jacks.

Colon appeared on television programs from the 1960s to the 2010s, including Sanford and Son and Gunsmoke. She is best known as "Mama Montana", the mother of Al Pacino's title character in Scarface. In 2014, she received the National Medal of Arts from President Barack Obama. In 1993, Colón received the Obie award for her theatre career, she also received several ACE awards. She died of complications from a pulmonary infection on March 3, 2017.