THR sends word that Israeli actress Liraz Charhi has been cast in Fair Game, an upcoming thriller by Doug Liman.

The film follows former real-life CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson (Naomi Watts) whose status as an operative was severely compromised when the Bush administration leaked her identity. This happened due to an editorial that Plame’s husband, ambassador Joseph Wilson (played by Sean Penn), wrote saying the administration doctored intelligence on Iraq to make a case for war.

Charhi will play the role of Sawsan, an Iraqi doctor living in Cleveland who Plame sends to Baghdad to help gather intelligence on Saddam Hussein’s nuclear program.

It is currently being shot in New York and the Middle East.