Liraz Charhi joins "Fair Game" with Sean Penn and Naomi Watts

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Israeli actress Liraz Charhi is joining Academy Award winner Sean Penn and Naomi Watts for the upcoming political-war drama "Fair Game".

According to THR, Charhi will play Sawsan, an Iraqi doctor in Cleveland whom Plame sends undercover to Baghdad to gather intelligence on Saddam Hussein's nuclear program in exchange for bringing her brother to the U.S.

The movie centers on how Plame's status was compromised because of a leak from the Bush administration, allegedly in retaliation for a 2003 op-ed piece her husband wrote claiming the administration manipulated intelligence on Iraq.

CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson will be played by Naomi Watts and Sean Penn as her husband, ambassador Joseph Wilson.

Directed by Doug Liman, due out 2010.

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