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Jul 22, 2018 · Sometimes they are hard-bitten covert operatives, sometimes they are femmes fatales, but the women of Mission: Impossible are every bit as important to the franchise’s success as Tom Cruise...
- 10 Claire Phelps
- 9 Julia Meade
- 8 Lindsey Farris
- 7 Alanna Mitsopolis A.K.A The White Widow
- 6 Sabine Moreau
- 5 Max Mitsopolis
- 4 Nyah Nordoff-Hall
- 3 Zhen Lei
- 2 Jane Carter
- 1 Ilsa Faust
First appeared in 1996 Mission: Impossible, Claire Phelps (Emmanuelle Béart) is a member of the Impossible Mission Force and wife of the director of the force, Jim Phelps (Jon Voight). Serving as the first installment in the same-name franchise, Mission Impossiblefollows Ethan Hunt as he is looking to find out who accused him of ordering the killin...
In the third installment, Mission: Impossible III, Julia Meade (Michelle Monaghan) was introduced as Ethan Hunt’s fiancee and later wife. Julia is a nurse who is unaware of Ethan’s secret life as a spy. When he is forced to come out of retirement to rescue his former protege, he is compelled to reveal his identity to Julia. Throughout Julia’s minor...
First introduced in Mission: Impossible III, Lindsey Farris, played by Keri Russell, is a field agent working for the Impossible Mission Force who is captured and killed by the film’s primary antagonist, Owen Davian (Philip Seymour Hoffman). Lindsey is a relatively minor character in the film but her presence still has a significant impact on the f...
Introduced in the 2018 film, Mission: Impossible - Fallout, Alanna Mitsopolis (Vanessa Kirby) a.k.a The White Widow is a black market arms dealer who operates in the criminal underworld of Europe. She also so happens to be Max's (Vanessa Redgrave) daughter, the main antagonist of the first film. The White Widow is portrayed as having many facets an...
Sabine Moreau (Léa Seydoux) is a minor character in Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol. She is a French assassin who works for the film’s primary antagonist, Kurt Hendricks (Michael Nyqvist), and only takes diamonds as payment. Even though Sabine is said to be a ruthless assassin, it’s rarely shown in the film how she demonstrates that despite he...
Serves as the main antagonist in the first installment of the franchise, Max Mitsopolis is a former British army colonel turned powerful arms dealer who hires Ethan Hunt and his team to steal a top-secret CIA file, but she betrays them and attempts to sell the file to the highest bidder. Max is characterized as a cunning, heartless person who will ...
Appearing in the second installment of the franchise, Mission: Impossible 2, Nyah Nordoff-Hall (Thandie Newton) is a skilled thief and a former love of the film’s primary villain, Sean Ambrose. She is recruited by Ethan Hunt to help him infiltrate Ambrose’s organization and retrieve a deadly virus that Ambrose plans to use as a biological weapon. N...
Zhen Lei (Maggie Q) is an IMF agent who teamed up with Ethan Hunt to attempt the release of Lindsay Farris, Hunt's kidnapped protege in the third installment. She then continued Farris' pursuit of a weapons dealer assignment after her death. Even though it’s not revealed in the film, Zhen is clearly a member of Ethan's inner circle because she is o...
Initially introduced in the fourth installment of the franchise, Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol, Jane Carter (Paula Patton) is a member of Ethan Hunt’s team and serves as a skilled field agent, and is responsible for a mission in Budapest to retrieve nuclear launch codes. Jane demonstrates intelligence and resourcefulness by utilizing her tec...
First appeared in the fifth installment, Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation, and reprises her role in the sixth film, Mission: Impossible - Fallout, Ilsa Faust (Rebecca Ferguson) is a British intelligence agent who initially appears to be working for the Syndicate, a criminal organization. However, it’s later revealed that she is working undercover...
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Jul 5, 2023 · The capable, interesting women of Mission: Impossible are refreshing for the action genre. Why don't they stick around like the men?
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Dec 9, 2021 · There are many incredible female characters in the Mission Impossible franchise. Among them, there are those that are more powerful than the rest.
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Jul 16, 2023 · By Shaurya Thapa. Published Jul 16, 2023. Link copied to clipboard. Tom Cruise’s Ethan Hunt indulges in one mission after another throughout the Mission: Impossible franchise, putting himself and the women in his life in jeopardy.
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Nov 5, 2023 · Wondering how to watch the Mission: Impossible franchise? Here are all the Mission: Impossible movies in order, chronologically and by release date.
Jul 27, 2018 · The only woman that’s appeared in more than one film is Michelle Monaghan, who plays Ethan Hunt’s wife (and later ex-wife) Julia. The franchise finally corrected it’s accidental (benefit of...
