Education
New York University.
New York University.
Coppola started her television career as a hostess on the Music Television game show Remote Control. In 1991, she was hired to play vixen Lorna Devon on the soap opera Another World. She played the role until 1994.
Her better-known television jobs include a recurring role on Trinity (1998–1999), a starring role on the American remake of the British comedy Cold Feet (1999), and top billing on the TNT drama Bulletin (2000).
She played Leesa in a 1999 episode of Sports Night, appeared briefly as Lieutenant Stadi in the pilot episode of Star Trek: Voyager, played a cannabalistic murderer on Computer Society of India: Crime Scene Investigation, a widow who marries her late husband"s killer on Law & Order: Criminal Intent, and appeared several times as a military lawyer on Judge Advocate General and NCIS (she also appeared in an episode of NCIS: Los Angeles, but as a different character).
She played a power company public relations representative in a 2004 episode of Monk. Coppola also took on the unusual role of a female serial killer agreeing to help catch her copycat in the 2005 episode of Crossing Jordan titled "Road Kill".
She had a recurring role on National Broadcasting Company"s American Dreams playing the role of Nancy.
She appeared in Two and a Half Men as Doctor Michelle Talmadge, in the episode "Woo-Hoo, a Hernia-Exam!" (2004). Coppola played a short role on the FOX television series Bones in 2005 as Joy Deaver in the episode, "The Girl in the Fridge". All four of her scenes were cut from the broadcast episode, but are restored as extras on the Day 4 Digital Video Disc. In them, she discovers a lead in the investigation which is originally dismissed by fellow analyst Edgar Stiles, who suspects her because of her religion.
Edgar later apologizes to her when her lead turns out to be important.
Starting in the fall of 2006, she appeared in the recurring role of Internal Revenue Service Agent Mimi Clark in the post-apocalyptic drama Jericho. She became a series regular in February 2007.
She was an Federal Bureau of Investigation agent in National Treasure: Book of Secrets, also directed by Jericho executive producer Jon Turteltaub. Coppola guest-starred on the season 2 episode "Little Angels" of Columbia Broadcasting System" NCIS: Los Angeles, playing Federal Bureau of Investigation agent Amy Rand, an expert on kidnapping cases.
She has also guest-starred on The Nine Lives of Chloe King as Valentina, the leader of the Mai.
She guest starred on Monk in "Mr. Monk and the Blackout" as the power plant public relations spokesperson and as Monk"s date. She recently appeared in the Music Television series Teen Wolf as the powerful Alpha werewolf Talia Hale.