Coppola began her television career as a hostess on the
MTV game show
Remote Control. 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. She played the role until 1994. Coppola's better-known TV jobs have included a recurring role on
Trinity (1998–99), a starring role on the
American remake of the British comedy
Cold Feet (1999), and top billing on the
TNT drama
Bull (2000). She played Leesa in a 1999 episode of
Sports Night, appeared briefly as
Betazoid Lt. Stadi in the pilot episode of
Star Trek: Voyager, played a cannibalistic murderer on
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, a widow who marries her late husband's killer on
Law & Order: Criminal Intent, and appeared several times as
JAG lawyer
Lieutenant Commander Faith Coleman on
JAG and
NCIS (she also appeared in an episode of
NCIS: Los Angeles, but as a different character). 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. 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 NBC's
American Dreams, playing the role of Nancy. She appeared on
Two and a Half Men as Dr. Michelle Talmadge, in the episode "Woo-Hoo, a Hernia Exam!" (2005). Coppola played a short role on the
Fox television series
Bones in 2005 as Joy Deaver in the episode "
The Girl in the Fridge". 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). All four of her scenes were cut from the broadcast episode, but are restored as extras on the Day 4 DVD. 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, Coppola appeared in the recurring role of
IRS Agent
Mimi Clark in the
post-apocalyptic drama Jericho. She became a series regular in February 2007. She was an
FBI agent in
National Treasure: Book of Secrets, also directed by
Jericho executive producer Jon Turteltaub. Coppola appeared on the season 2 episode "Little Angels" of CBS'
NCIS: Los Angeles, playing FBI agent Amy Rand, an expert on kidnapping cases. She has also appeared on
The Nine Lives of Chloe King as Valentina, the leader of the Mai. She appeared on
Monk in "
Mr. Monk and the Blackout" as the power plant public relations spokesperson and as Monk's date. She appeared in the
MTV series
Teen Wolf as the powerful Alpha
werewolf Talia Hale. In 2014, Coppola appeared on
Sons of Anarchy as Mildred Treal in the episode "Faith and Despondency". She returned to daytime soap operas for the first time in twenty years when she took a recurring role on CBS's
The Young and the Restless in spring 2016. Coppola appeared as Dr. Tammy Brunner in a 2017 episode of
Designated Survivor. 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
9-1-1. ==Personal life==