A woman representing the Nuestros Pilares feminist group, plays a violin during a demonstration against gender-based violence marking International Women's Day, in Santiago, Chile, Wednesday, March 8, 2023. (Photo by Esteban Felix/AP Photo)

An American family with a carved pumpkin illuminated by a candle to celebrate Halloween. (Photo by Sherman/Three Lions/Getty Images). Circa 1955

Mom dressed as Santa and a boy dressed as Santa's helper posing under the water in the pool on December 15, 2016 in Odessa, Ukraine. (Photo by Andrey Nekrasov/Barcroft Images)

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.

“The western or lowland bongo is a herbivorous, mostly nocturnal forest ungulate and among the largest of the African forest antelope species. Bongos are characterised by a striking reddish-brown coat, black and white markings, white-yellow stripes and long slightly spiralled horns”. – Wikipedia

Photo: The one month old newborn Bongo Antelope Calf ventures out in the cold with his mother in their enclosure at London Zoo on December 9, 2005 in London, England. (Photo by Christopher Lee/Getty Images)

Children play at the Ryoji Ikeda exhibition “the transfinite” at the Park Avenue Armory on June 10, 2011 in New York City. The audio visual installation, which will close after tomorrow, features two back-two-back screens displaying a continual loop of sounds, fragments of numbers and strobe-lit patterns that echo the Japanese artist's interest in mathematics, the subconscious and the digital world. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

A woman smokes a cigar as she reads the newspaper in a street of Havana, on November 26, 2016, the day after Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro died aged 90. One of the world's longest-serving rulers and modern history's most singular characters, Castro defied 11 US administrations and hundreds of assassination attempts. (Photo by Yamil Lage/AFP Photo)