The actor Jonathan Majors was arrested on Saturday in Manhattan and charged with assault and harassment after what the police in New York described as a “domestic dispute.”

Mr. Majors, 33, was taken into custody without incident, the authorities said. The victim, described only as a 30-year-old woman, was taken to a hospital after suffering what the police said were minor injuries to her head and neck.

In a statement sent by Carrie Gordon, a representative for Mr. Majors, and attributed to Priya Chaudhry, Mr. Majors’s lawyer, Ms. Chaudhry wrote that Mr. Majors was the “victim of an altercation with a woman he knows,” that the woman had recanted the accusation and that video evidence and witnesses supported his account.

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