Former CIA employee Valerie Plame Wilson testifies at a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington March 16, 2007. REUTERS/Larry Downing

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Israeli actress Liraz Charhi has been cast in “Fair Game,” director Doug Liman’s drama about outed CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson.

Naomi Watts already has been cast as Plame. Sean Penn plays her husband, ambassador Joseph Wilson.

Charhi will play the fictional 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. Former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, who was skeptical of the administration’s war plans, admitted in 2006 that he was the original source of the leak.

The film, based on Plame’s memoir, is filming in New York and the Middle East.

(Editing by Dean Goodman)