Actors Sean Penn and Robin Wright Penn have announced that they will be divorcing. The Hollywood couple were together for 17 years since they first met while working on the set of “State of Grace” and then married for 11 years. They have two children, Dylan and Francis.

This is also the second marriage for both of them. Penn, who won an Academy Award for his performance in “Mystic River”, was married briefly to pop singer Madonna in the 1980s. Wright, who is possibly best known for her role as “The Princess Bride”, was married to actor Dane Witherspoon before meeting her second husband.

Another celebrity duo is also saying that their marriage is over. “Mummy” leading man Brendan Fraser and his wife of 9 years Afton are also divorcing. They have three children together. Fraser will appear in the third “Mummy” movie, “Tomb of the Dragon Emperor”, which comes out next summer.

Before he dons the fedora of adventurer Indiana Jones leading man has another movie project to work on first. Ford, Ray Liotta (“GoodFellas”) and Sean Penn (“Mystic River”) will start work on “Crossing Over” beginning this Wednesday, April 11. The drama is being directed by Wayne Kramer (“The Cooler”) and is being produced by the Weinstein brothers, Frank Marshall, Gregg Taylor and director Kramer.

The movie will examine the cloudy reality behind illegal immigration into the United States from Mexico. Ford will play an enforcement agent that stages raids to capture the illegal immigrants while Liotta plays a USCIS district adjudicator trying to solve the problems through the legal system. Penn’s role will be minor and he will only be needed for three days of filming playing a border patrol agent.

Like “Traffic”, which examined the drug problem and also starred several high profile actors, “Crossing Over” will hire more cast to round out the rest of the roles. Ironically, Ford turned down the part that Michael Douglas wound up playing in “Traffic”.