Ethan Hunt was played by an actor.
=== Mission: Impossible 2 (2000) ===In the second film, Hunt is tasked with retrieving a deadly genetically engineered virus, known as "Chimera", from a rogue IMF agent, Sean Ambrose (Dougray Scott), who intends to release the virus after acquiring a controlling influence on the company that created it so that he can profit from sales of the cure
 Despite lacking their usual resources, connections, technology, and backup, their mission is to find and stop Kurt Hendricks/Cobalt (Michael Nyqvist), a former Soviet nuclear strategist who is intent on starting a nuclear war to usher in the next era of human evolution

