“There’s something about the hair that just tells you so much about a person.” Photograph by Theo Wenner.

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Whether actress Annabelle Dexter-Jones is playing a troublemaker on Succession or an artist on American Horror Story, her hairstyle is a clue to her character

Annabelle Dexter-Jones has a way of making a big splash from a small leap. She was the unforgettably icy troublemaker Naomi Pierce on Succession, where her mastery of a sharp haircut and a luxuriously minimalist wardrobe set fashion editors panting. On Ryan Murphy’s American Horror Story: Delicate Part Two, on FX this month, she has a wild and woolly character arc. Dexter-Jones lives in New York City, where she’s known as a cool girl in a family filled with cool (Mark, Samantha, and Charlotte Ronson are her half-siblings; Alexander Dexter-Jones is her brother; Ann Dexter-Jones and Foreigner’s Mick Jones are her parents). For clues about the characters she plays on-screen and in life, just look at the hair on her head. —Linda Wells

I believe a haircut can change your life. None of us really has control over anything. But my hair is something I do have control over.