In 2003, he left Paris for New York City where he studied acting, dancing and singing at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute.
In February 2010 he produced and starred alongside Dolores Chaplin, Kasi Lemmons and Vondie Curtis-Hall in his show "From Slavery to Freedom" at the Cantor Film Center in New York.
In 2011, in a France 2 biopic of Toussaint Louverture, Stany Coppet played the role of General André Rigaud.
In 2013, Coppet joined the cast of the Telecinco series El Príncipe, in the role of Khaled.
Coppet also appeared in and co-wrote the film La Vie Pure[2] directed by Jeremy Banster, based on the life of the French explorer Raymond Maufrais, who disappeared in the Amazon forest of French Guiana in 1950.