James Cromwell has been sentenced to jail for his role in a protest over a power plant in New York back in 2015.

Cromwell was among a group found guilty of obstructing traffic during a sit-in at the site of a natural gas-fired power plant in Wawayanda.

Having initially been ordered to pay a fine, Cromwell refused, and was given a week-long sentence as a consequence. His term will begin on July 14.

"If we don't stay together, nothing will change," Cromwell told Record Online following his appearance in court. "Power to the people."

It's not the first time Cromwell's been in trouble with the law for his activism; back in 2013, he was arrested alongside another protestor at the University of Wisconsin, where he was taking a stand against animal testing at the university.

Cromwell was nominated for an Oscar for his role as Farmer Hoggett in 1995's Babe, and also won an Emmy Award for his role as Doctor Arthur Arden in American Horror Story: Asylum.

He'll be seen in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom next year, where he'll play Benjamin Lockwood, a scientist developing the technology to clone dinosaurs.

He recently revealed that his character has a direct connection to Richard Attenborough's John Hammond.

"The character Richard Attenborough played [in Jurassic Park], I'm his partner, Benjamin Lockwood. We developed the technology of being able to clone the genes and so I am trying to deal with the blowback from what we have done."

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Tasha Hegarty Tasha Hegarty is a freelance news writer at Digital Spy.

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