Daryl Hannah Arrested at White House Protest

While Daryl Hannah's movie career has been none too active as of late (though she is reportedly coming back soon for "Kill Bill 3"), the former "Splash" star has been quite busy making waves as an activist.

According to TMZ, Hannah was arrested today at a protest about the Alaskan oil pipeline outside of the White House.

Hannah allegedly refused to move from her position seated on the sidewalk in front of the White House with a group of protestors, and after being asked to move three times, was taken to jail.

Hannah told the press "sometimes it's necessary to sacrifice your freedom for a greater freedom. And we want to be free from the horrible death and destruction that fossil fuels cause, and have a clean energy future."

Hannah had written a post this week in the Huffington Post about why she was protesting, saying:

"This week, President Obama will find hundreds more people in front of the White House -- us included -- willing to go to jail for peacefully protesting the President's short-sighted decision to approve the Keystone XL pipeline. President Obama's decision on this enormous fossil fuel project will not be a quiet deal with oil industry lobbyists; it will be witnessed by millions of voters who had hoped that President Obama would have the vision to get America off of oil with a moonshot program for oil-free cars by the next decade. Instead, oil profits have been pitted against the world that our children will live in, hooking America to some of the highest polluting oil without moving America quickly to a foreign oil-free future."

Hannah was one of 500 protestors arrested at demonstration.

Watch NBC footage live from the protest, of Hannah being arrested: