About: Míriam Colón

Míriam Colón Valle (August 20, 1936 – March 3, 2017) was a Puerto Rican actress. She was the founder and director of the Puerto Rican Traveling Theater in New York City. Beginning her career in the early 1950s, she performed on Broadway, later moving into television. She became well known on various television shows from the 1960s through 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 (1983). (This is despite the fact that the actors had an age gap of less than four years.) In 2014, she received the National Medal of Arts from President Barack Obama. She died of complications from a pulmonary infection on March 3, 2017, at the age of 80.