Elvira Hancock

Elvira Hancock
Scarface character
Pfeiffer as Elvira Hancock
First appearance	1983
Last appearance	2014
Created by	Oliver Stone
Portrayed by	Michelle Pfeiffer Amy Adams
Information
Nickname(s)	Elvie
Gender	Female
Spouse(s)	Frank Lopez (ex-boyfriend) Tony Montana (Husband)
Religion	Christian
Nationality	American

Elvira Hancock is a fictional character in the 1983 American mob film Scarface, portrayed by Michelle Pfeiffer. This proved to be her breakthrough role. She is the mistress of Frank Lopez (Robert Loggia) and after his death, becomes the wife of Tony Montana (Al Pacino).

Before Pfeiffer was cast as Hancock, Rosanna Arquette, Melanie Griffith and Kim Basinger turned down the part whereas Geena Davis, Carrie Fisher and Sharon Stone did not get the part despite auditioning for it.Kelly McGillis and Sigourney Weaver were also considered. Initially, Pacino did not want Pfeiffer to play Hancock, instead he wanted Glenn Close to play the role. Pfeiffer's agent called the film's producer Martin Bregman and requested him to pay for her transportation from Los Angeles to New York City. Bregman refused and Pfeiffer reached the audition theater on the West Side of Manhattan by her own means. Bregman said in a later interview that, after the audition he was sure that she would get Hancock's part. Pfeiffer said that during the shoot she felt hungry.

Hancock is from Baltimore. She is the girlfriend of drug dealer Frank Lopez. Tony Montana has Lopez killed and marries Hancock. They do not share a good relationship. She and Montana do not have kids and the latter blames it on her heavy drug use. She in turn blames Montana's profession as a drug dealer as part of the reason the pair had no children. She left Montana after he berated her for not having kids and her heavy drug usage.

Critic Roger Ebert wrote, "that [Montana] must have [Hancock] is clear, but what he intends to do with her is not; there is no romance between them, no joy [...] she's along for the drugs". Vincent Canby felt that for her role, "[Pfeiffer] would not be easily forgotten". Susan C. Boyd labels her as "the token cultural symbol of Western male capitalist success".