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Liev portrayed which character in "The Manchurian Candidate"?

  • Raymond Shaw

  • Ben Marco

  • Richard Condon

  • Raymond Prentiss Shaw

Answer

In the 1962 Cold War thriller "The Manchurian Candidate," Liev Schreiber plays Raymond Prentiss Shaw, a seemingly heroic soldier who unknowingly harbors a brainwashed sleeper agent persona programmed to assassinate a prominent political figure. Shaw's portrayal highlights the film's central themes of manipulation, political power, and the psychological impacts of war and trauma.
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