[citation needed] In 1991, Coppola joined the cast of the soap opera Another World, playing the vixen Lorna Devon, the long-lost daughter of popular character Felicia Gallant.

In 2003, she starred alongside Gary Oldman and Ving Rhames in the film Sin, and played a Hollywood rehab stereotype by the name of Toni Stark on Dawson's Creek.

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".

[citation needed] Coppola had a role as a Muslim intelligence analyst working for the Los Angeles branch of the Counter Terrorist Unit (CTU), in a single episode of 24, named Azara ("1–2 am" during Day 4).

[citation needed] Starting in the fall of 2006, Coppola appeared in the recurring role of IRS Agent Mimi Clark in the post-apocalyptic drama Jericho.

[citation needed] Coppola had a recurring role as Carrie Walsh, the owner of a questionable drug rehabilitation facility called Winding Path, in season 6 of the first responder procedural '911'.

Coppola is married to actor, writer, and producer Anthony Michael Jones, best known for appearing in General Hospital as Father Coates, a recurring occasional role which he played in 11 episodes from 2002 through 2010.