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Nicole Kidman will play former CIA operative Valerie Plame in a biopic based on the outed officer's memoir. This isn't Kidman's first stealthy role. She starred in The Interpreter as a U.N. staffer harboring a deadly secret and in The Peacemaker as a White House nuclear expert.