The Splash star was arrested outside the White House afer refusing to move from the president's residence while protesting a planned oil pipline stretching from Canada to the U.S. Gulf Coast. It marked at least the third time the actress has been hauled in over various environmental causes, including one that involved squatting in a tree.
In an effort to stop a Shell-contracted drillship from departing for the Arctic, the former Xena: Warrior Princess actress spent four days aboard the vessel in New Zealand before she and six other Greenpeace activists were arrested and charged with burglary.
The man who is just as famous for his activism as he is for his acting is certainly no stranger to challenging authority and being taken into custody as an outspoken proponent for PETA, abortion rights and nuclear disarmament. Just to name a few.
The onetime Heroes star was part of a convoy of activists from the U.S. and Australia who paddled out on surfboards to protest the annual slaughter of dolphins and whales by fisherman in Japan. The actress was subsequently hit with an arrest warrant.
The Oscar winner found himself on the other side of the law for the first time for "disorderly crossing of a police line" outside the Sudanese embassy. The day before, the actor met with President Obama to discuss the humanitarian crisis going on in South Sudan.
It didn't come as a complete surprise that the actor led a protest with members from the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals atop a Wendy's restaurant rooftop in Virginia. He did star in Babe, after all.
The outspoken actress was one of more than 200 people arrested outside New York City police headquarters for protesting against the police shooting of an unarmed African immigrant.
Eight years before George Clooney's arrest, the Lethal Weapon star was also led away in handcuffs for staging a similar protest on the steps of Sudan's embassy in Washington, D.C.
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