Who is Max in Mission: Impossible?

Arms dealer and information broker.

Who plays Max in Mission: Impossible?

Max is played by Vanessa Redgrave.

Max's abilities include arms brokering, network management, negotiation, intelligence trading.

Max has 4 mapped relationships in Mission: Impossible. Explore the interactive relationship map for details.

Max — Unknown Negotiator — Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise)
Ethan uses a dangerous business negotiation to gain access to Max's network.

Ethan meets Max, warns her that the NOC list is fake and tracked, and offers to obtain the authentic list for ten million dollars.
Max — Alliance Criminal Associate — Jim Phelps (Jon Voight)
Max is connected to the mole's information-selling operation.

The plot states that the mole works with Max as part of Job 314, and Max expects to receive the list.
Max — Conflict Technical Counterpart — Luther (Ving Rhames)
Luther directly counters Max's attempt to transmit the stolen intelligence.

Luther blocks Max's upload of the NOC list to her servers during the train exchange.
Max — Power Captor — Kittridge (Henry Czerny)
Kittridge exercises institutional power over Max after the exchange.

At the conclusion, Kittridge takes Max into custody and recovers the NOC list from Luther.