The BBC News website looks at other actors who have hit the headlines for their off-screen behaviour.

Slater, 35, is once again in trouble with the law

Native New Yorker Christian Slater started his career as a child actor before making his name in Heathers in 1989, the same year he had his first run-in with police.

He was involved in a police chase which ended when he crashed his car into a telephone pole, kicked a policeman and tried to hop a fence.

He was charged with evading police, driving under the influence and assault with a deadly weapon - his cowboy boots.

Slater was arrested again in 1994 for taking a gun onto a plane.

He reached a plea deal which required him to work with homeless children for three days.

In 1997 he was sentenced to three months in jail, with 36 months probation for assaulting a girlfriend and a police officer, as well as cocaine abuse.

But he was back in court on 31 May charged with sexually harassing a woman on a Manhattan street. The woman claims he groped her bottom, an accusation he denies.

Sheen cleaned up prior to his marriage to Denise Richards in 2002

Charlie Sheen, 39, was one of the original Brat Pack actors who found fame in the early 1980s in a string of movies including Young Guns and Platoon.

The son of Martin Sheen and brother of Emilio Estevez, he took to the Hollywood lifestyle - and the bottle - with enthusiasm.

Following a stint in a rehabilitation clinic, which saw him stay sober for a year, the actor was arrested in 1996 for assaulting a woman at his home, who claimed she had been knocked unconscious.

He was also the only star named as a client of Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss, testifying at her trial that he had paid her $50,000 for escorts.

He ended up in hospital in 1998 following a drug overdose and checked into rehab on his release, but he only stayed a day.

Subsequently arrested for drinking and drug driving, he went back to rehab on doctor's orders and has remained clean and sober ever since.

Downey Jr has established a music career following his stint in jail

Robert Downey Jr's legal troubles began in 1996 when he was caught with cocaine, heroin and a pistol in his car.

A month later he was found passed out in a neighbour's house - which he thought was his own - and taken to hospital for substance abuse treatment.

In August 1999, Downey Jr was sentenced to three years in prison for violating his probation by missing scheduled drugs tests, but served only one year.

After his release he was twice caught with drugs on him and was ordered into residential rehab.

He seemed to be getting his career back on track with a recurring guest role in Ally McBeal but his subsequent re-arrest meant scriptwriters had write Downey Jr out of end-of-season episodes, infuriating creator David E Kelley.

Downey Jr was released early from his probation after convincing a judge he had stayed clean and sober for a year.

Speaking after the end of his probation he said prison had made him "older and wiser".

Mickey Rourke has made a successful comeback with Sin City

The original 80s bad boy, Mickey Rourke's spectacular fall from grace is the stuff of Hollywood legend.

Bruising arrogance, an uncontrollable temper and a talent with his fists nearly finished Rourke's acting career.

At the height of his success in the late 1980s, Rourke fell out with everyone.

The actor turned down roles in Platoon, The Untouchables and Pulp Fiction in favour of hell-raising with mob boss John Gotti and late rapper Tupac Shakur.

At the lowest point, in 1994, Rourke's then wife Carre Otis claimed the actor had punched and kicked her during an argument. Charges were later dropped, but the pair would eventually divorce in 1998.

Rourke turned his back on Hollywood, becoming a professional boxer on barely $200 a week.

But eight years of therapy has put Rourke, 48, back on track with a star turn in Sin City.

Former bad boy Penn won best actor for his role in Mystic River in 2004

Back in the early eighties when Sean Penn, now 44, dazzled in films like Fast Times at Ridgemont High and The Falcon and the Snowman, he was headline news.

Unfortunately, the headlines were more likely to be about his scuffles with the paparazzi than his film career.

In 1985, during his wedding to pop star Madonna, Penn reportedly fired shots at journalists as they hovered in overhead helicopters.

Drink fuelled his antagonism toward the media, with his bad boy image reaching its zenith in 1987 when Penn was jailed for 32 days for hitting a photographer and violating probation.

Notoriously opinionated, Penn has got himself into trouble with directors and presidents alike. He likened working with Oliver Stone to "talking to a pig".

But divorce from Madonna and a new partnership with actress Robyn Wright, now his second wife, seemed to give Penn focus, earning the first of four Oscar nominations for Dead Man Walking in 1995.