Imaan Hammam's sister Aicha wishing sister Dutch fashion model Imaan Hammam a happy birthday in the first decade of October 2024. (Photo by Instagram)

Celebrities arrive to the screening of Netflix's “Our Little Secret” at The Paris Theatre on November 18, 2024 in New York City, New York, USA. Pictured: American actress and singer-songwriter lindsay lohan. (Photo by Ouzounova/Splash News and Pictures)

Colombian-American actress and TV personality Sofía Vergara in the second decade of December 2023 flaunts her figure in a body-hugging dress. (Photo by Sofiavergara/Instagram)

Lola Aylmer, 25, stands inside the artist Gemma Anderson-Tempini's infinite laundry mirrored room, which is part of a transformed Victorian house, in Leeds, UK early November 2023. (Photo by South West News Service)

Kim Goodman, from Chicago, Illinois, US, holds the record for the farthest eyeball protrusion, at 12mm. (Photo by Paul Michael Hughes/Guinness World Records/PA Wire Press Association)

A reveller dances next to a police officer at Notting Hill Carnival in London, Britain on August 28, 2022. (Photo by Henry Nicholls/Reuters)

An officer of the Afghan border police throws an assault rifle to a policeman participating in a military exercise on the outskirts of Herat, Afghanistan, Monday, September 7, 2015. Twelve female and seventy male border police personnel participated in the military exercise near the border with Iran in Herat province. (Photo by Hoshang Hashimi/AP Photo)

Photographer Howard Schatz had an idea: place actors in a series of roles and dramatic situations to reveal the essence of their characters. Such was the premise behind his book, In Character: Actors Acting, which captures some of Hollywood’s most emotive stars in the act of, well, making faces. Luckily for us, he continued the tradition for Vanity Fair. Here are some of the best.