Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Míriam Colón (born August 20, 1936) is a Puerto Rican actress and the founder and director of the Puerto Rican Traveling Theater in New York City. Description above from the Wikipedia article Míriam Colón, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Complete Filmography

The Girl Is in Trouble
2015
as Grandma
A Lower East Side bartender becomes entangled in a murder mystery involving a desperate woman, a missing drug dealer and the scion of a powerful inves...

Bless Me, Ultima
2013
as Ultima
In a village in New Mexico, the life of young farm boy Antonio is dramatically changed when an old medicine woman joins his household. This affecting ...

Foreverland
2011
A sufferer of cystic fibrosis travels to a legendary shrine that reputedly has the power to heal his condition.

The Cry
2007
as Gloria the Curandera
In New York, detective Alex Scott is investigating with his partner Sergio Perez the disappearance of several children. When they visit the Mexican wi...

Goal II: Living the Dream
2007
as Mercedes
Tempted away from Newcastle United to join Real Madrid, rising star Santiago Munez finds this latest change of fortune the greatest challenge yet - pe...
A Look At: Puerto Rico
2006
as Narrator
Part of a series of films produced by Vme TV that features aerial videography shot from a helicopter of points of interest. This film in particular fe...

Goal!
2005
as Mercedes
Like millions of kids around the world, Santiago harbors the dream of being a professional footballer... However, living in the Barrios section of Los...

Almost a Woman
2002
as Tata
A young woman named Esmeralda and her family move to New York from a rural area of Puerto Rico. The transition is difficult due to the many challenges...
Julia, toda en mí
2002
A poetic journey about the life and work of Puerto Rican poet Julia de Burgos.

The Blue Diner
2001
as Meche
Blue Diner is a story of a Puerto Rican mother Meche (Miriam Colon) and daughter Elena (Lisa Vidal) living together in Boston and difficulties they fa...

All the Pretty Horses
2000
as Alfonsa
The year is 1949. A young Texan named John Grady finds himself without a home after his mother sells the ranch where he has spent his entire life. Lur...

For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story
2000
as Cirita Sandoval
In the early 1970s, Cuban trumpeter Arturo Sandoval (Andy Garcia) is torn between his own musical dreams and the dreams of his wife, Marianela (Mía Ma...

Gloria
1999
as Maria
After serving a prison term for her boyfriend, a streetwise, middle-aged moll named Gloria stands up against the mobs, which is complicated by a six-y...
El callejón de los cuernos
1998
The story of two cousins struggling in the world of drugs and chaos in the neighborhood of La Perla of Old San Juan. A kind of modern Cain and Abel in...

Mistrial
1996
as Mrs. Cruz
When a cop-killer goes free, a detective's search for personal justice veers dangerously out of control. Declaring a mistrial, he takes the accused, t...

Oedipus Mayor
1996
as Deyanira
Edipo, is appointed mayor of a town plunged in misery and violence. His first mission is to discover and punish the murderers of Layo, a well-known po...

Lone Star
1996
as Mercedes Cruz
When the skeleton of his murdered predecessor is found, Sheriff Sam Deeds unearths many other long-buried secrets in his Texas border town.

Sabrina
1995
as Rosa
Sabrina Fairchild, a chauffeur's daughter, grew up at the Long Island estate of the wealthy Larrabee family enchanted with their sparkling world of pr...

Somos un solo pueblo
1995
as Self
Presents a bit of the history of the migration of our people, people who came out opening new horizons and looking for new destinations. During that a...

The House of the Spirits
1993
as Nana
A rancher, his clairvoyant wife and their family face turbulent years in South America.

City of Hope
1991
as Mrs. Ramirez
This gritty inner-city film follows various people living in a troubled New Jersey setting, most notably Nick Rinaldi, a disillusioned contractor who ...

The Lightning Incident
1991
as Dolores' mother
McKeon's baby is kidnapped by a devil-worshipping cult and she uses her new-found psychic abilities to track them down.

Deadline: Madrid
1988
as Pilar
In Spain during the civil war. The American journalists Erin Wright and Robert Minelli enjoy their lives in bars. Then the courageous journalist Jonat...

Best Kept Secrets
1984
as Ina Dietz
Blaise Dietz (Patty Duke Astin) plays the wife of police officer Blaise Dietz (Frederic Forrest), who wants to join a special investigative unit. Forr...

Scarface
1983
as Mama Montana
After getting a green card in exchange for assassinating a Cuban government official, Tony Montana stakes a claim on the drug trade in Miami. Viciousl...

Starstruck
1981
as Yolanda
Aspiring teen folk singer is torn whether to continue her singing or to accept an educational scholarship.

Life of Sin
1979
as Isabel
The film dramatizes the life of Isabel "la Negra" Luberza Oppenheimer. Pablo, a Caribbean peasant, and Isabel, a politician's mistress, open a brothel...

The Meanest Men in the West
1978
as Eva Talbot
Bronson and Marvin star as murderous half-brothers who are running from the law as well as each other. A climatic confrontation proves to each of them...

The Hemingway Play
1976
as Luisa
A novel portrait of author Ernest Hemingway, in which four versions of the man from different points of his life exist simultaneously.

Dr. Max
1974
as Mrs. Camacho
A small-town doctor neglects his family to look after his patients.

The Possession of Joel Delaney
1972
as Veronica
An upper-class Manhattan divorcee comes to believe that her brother is possessed by the spirit of a serial killer who beheaded young women in Spanish ...

They Call It Murder
1971
as Anita Nogales
A small-town district attorney is saddled with several major investigations, including a gambler's murder and a possible insurance scam.

The Desperate Mission
1969
as Claudina
A man who has lost everything joins others paid to convey a wealthy man's wife - and a mysterious treasure - to safety in San Francisco.

The Appaloosa
1966
as Ana
A man tries to recover a horse stolen from him by a Mexican bandit.

Thunder Island
1963
as Anita Chavez
A hit man hijacks a boat — and the married couple aboard — in order to carry out a contract on a dictator in the Caribbean.

Harbor Lights
1963
as Gina Rosario
Professional gambler Dan Crown arrives in San Juan to visit his brother Alex, only to learn from the police that Alex has been found murdered. To Capt...

One-Eyed Jacks
1961
as Redhead
Running from the law after a bank robbery in Mexico, Dad Longworth finds an opportunity to take the stolen gold and leave his partner Rio to be captur...

A Town Has Turned to Dust
1958
as Dolores
The weakling sheriff of a small southwestern town allows a Mexican teenager to be lynched by a local mob for a crime he may not have committed.

Crowded Paradise
1956
A Puerto Rican immigrant anxiously awaits his wedding day, but his fiancé's racist landlord intervenes.

Los peloteros
1951
as Lolita
A group of kids in a poverty-stricken Puerto Rican rural town need money to purchase baseball uniforms for little league.

Unhallowed
N/A
as Bruja
A family, scorned by the loss of their son, seek guidance from a spiritual healer of whom many believe to be the reincarnation of Luke (from the Bible...