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- Actor
- Emmanuelle Béart
- Character
- Claire
- Watch
- Unidentified watch
- Status
- Unidentified
Emmanuelle Béart plays Claire Phelps in Mission: Impossible, the wife of Jim Phelps and a member of the IMF team that gets wiped out in Prague during a botched operation. Brian De Palma directed this 1996 adaptation of the television series, which established Tom Cruise's Ethan Hunt as an action franchise star and killed off most of the original show's characters in the first act. Claire survives the Prague massacre along with Ethan, and the two become uneasy allies as Hunt tries to figure out who set up his team. Béart brings an ambiguity to Claire that keeps the audience guessing about her loyalties, which is exactly what a De Palma thriller needs. The film is remembered for its setpieces, particularly the CIA vault heist, but Béart's performance adds human stakes to the paranoia. Her watch has not been identified.
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