Sean Penn has filed for “legal separation with minor children” from his wife of 13 years, actress Robin Wright Penn.

He filed the papers last Friday, Extra first reported.

Penn, 48, initially filed for divorce in December 2007, but his petition was later dismissed. Three days later, Wright Penn, 43, filed her own paperwork.

But in April 2008, the couple’s divorce petition was dismissed at their request.

They attended February’s Academy Awards, where Penn won his second Best Actor Oscar for his role as gay rights activist Harvey Milk.

He did not thank Wright Penn — with whom he has two children, Dylan, 18, and Hopper Jack, 15 — while accepting his award.

After the show, he told Oprah Winfrey that his gratitude for his wife was “implicit.”

“I wanted to keep things focused on the professional team around this movie,” he explained. “Because with Robin comes my mother and my son and my daughter, and half of them will punish me if I mention them.”

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Pictured: Winona Ryder, Sean Penn and wife Robin Wright Penn, Emile Hirsch, Josh Brolin, Elizabeth Banks & Marisa Tomei.

I love that they’re back together!  (Even if they don’t look exactly happy…)

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In attendance for the New York premiere of Hounddog were Dakota Fanning, Kirsten Dunst, Robin Wright Penn, director Deborah Kampmeier, Jen Gatien, Robert Davi, and more!

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Sean Penn and Robin Wright Penn fueled speculation their marriage has been saved by dining out together in Los Angeles on Friday night.

The couple was spotted enjoying a romantic meal at restaurant Madeo.

The actors, who split in December after 11 years of marriage, previously reunited at an Eddie Vedder concert in San Francisco, California in April.

Penn even took to the stage at the gig to dedicate a song to his wife, who was celebrating her 42nd birthday.

Wright Penn dismissed her divorce case against the actor days before the Vedder concert.

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Sean Penn’s divorce to Robin Wright Penn has been called off.

Court officials confirm to Extra that a dismissal was filed and granted on Tuesday.

The same day, Extra reported the pair hit an Eddie Vedder concert in San Francisco, where Penn, 47 — who flirted with Petra Nemcova at the Oscars — dedicated a song to his wife, 42, on stage for her birthday.

He originally filed divorce papers in Marin County December 7, his attorney Mindy Ross told Usmagazine.com, but the petition was dismissed December 18.

On December 21, she filed her own request for divorce, citing irreconcilable differences. Penn’s divorce papers listed November 30 as the date of their separation; she listed the split date as December 1.

The couple, who have been married for over 11 years, have two kids: Dylan Francis, 16, and Hopper Jack, 14.

“It was bound to happen,” a source told Us at the time of their split. “He always seemed like a bachelor at heart and the kind of guy who just couldn’t be married for long.”

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