Mriam Coln

Míriam Colón Valle (August 20, 1936 – March 3, 2017) was a Puerto Rican actress. She is best known as Mama Montana, the mother of Al Pacino's title character in Scarface. She was the founder and director of New York City's Puerto Rican Traveling Theater. In 2014, she received the National Medal of Arts from President Barack Obama. She died of complications from a pulmonary infection on March3, 2017, at the age of 80. She appeared on television programs from the 1960s to the 2010s, including Sanford and Son and Gunsmoke. In 2013, she was cast in the role of Gloria in the film Ultima, starring Sharon Stone, based on the novel Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya. She also appeared in the TV series Better Call Saul in 2015, as Abuelita in Season 1 of the TV show, and in Life of Sin in which she portrayed Isabel la Negra, a real-life Puerto Rican brothel owner. Colón has said that despite being only 4 years older than Al Pacón, she based her performance on her own mother.