Actor Susan Sarandon was one of 575 people charged with unlawfully demonstrating during a heated Washington protest on Friday.
The women were protesting against the government's migration policy and cases of children being separated from their parents on the southern border.
Further protests were scheduled yesterday.
Sarandon, who won an Oscar for Dead Man Walking in 1996 and also starred in 1991's Thelma and Louise and The Witches of Eastwick in 1987, announced her arrest on Twitter.
Sarandon tweeted from the rally, where she and other women carried banners that said "We demand ... end all detention camps".