Miriam Colon

Born on August 20, 1936 in Ponce, the second largest city in Puerto Rico, Miriam Colón Valle already participated in plays in school years. Although her humble economic position did not allow her to pay for theater studies, due to her talent she was admitted as an auditor in the Drama Department of the University of Puerto Rico.

He made his film debut in Peloteros (1953), a Puerto Rican comedy that had enormous repercussions in South America. Later he won a scholarship that allowed him to enroll in The Lee Strasburg Acting Studio, in New York, after impressing one of the creators of the institution, Elia Kazan . In the city of skyscrapers, he founded the Puerto Rican Traveling Theater with other professionals, to accommodate Latin American and Spanish authors.

In addition, she became a regular on television, as a secondary in series, almost always westerns, such as Bonanza , El virginiano and El gran Chaparral . In Hollywood cinema, she participated in The Impenetrable Face , a western directed and starring Marlon Brando . Her most remembered role is undoubtedly the mother of Tony Montana, a Cuban emigrant who rises in the underworld, played by Al Pacino in The Price of Power . In Sabrina (and her love) she stood out as a cook, in the funniest scenes of the film. She was also a businesswoman at Lone Star , grandmother of the boy she is trying to save.Sharon Stone in Glory .

In 2015, Miriam Colón received the National Medal of Arts, the highest public recognition for an artist in the United States. She never wanted to retire. “What do you do when you retire?” She argued in an interview. “Any! I don’t sew, I don’t knit, I don’t paint, I don’t write. What am I going to do if the only thing I know how to do is this? what will be of my life? What do I know! If I’m going to die, I’d rather die like this.” Until the moment of her death, she was still linked to various film and theater projects.