Sean Penn
© AFP/File Evan Agostini 28 December 2007 (Sawf News) - The couple - who have two children together, Hopper Jack, 14, and Dylan Frances, 16 - have decided to go their separate ways after 11 years of marriage.
The couple's representative Mara Buxbaun confirmed the news to People magazine.
No further information has been released yet.
Penn, 47, and Wright, 41, started dating in the early 90s and married in 1996, five years after their first child was born.
During their marriage the couple starred in a number of films together, including 'Hurlyburly' in 1998 and 'She's So Lovely' in 1997.
This will be Penn's second divorce. His four-year marriage to pop star Madonna ended in 1989, just shortly before he started dating Wright.
Earlier this year, Penn lost two trailers when the California wildfires scorched his land in Malibu.
Penn used to have a home on the plot before it was destroyed in an arson-suspected brushfire in 1993.
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