In 2003, he left
Paris for
New York City where he studied acting, dancing and singing at the
Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute. On stage in New York, he performed at the Repertory and the
Century Center for the Performing Arts. Then, along with Steven Adams and Steven Soderbergh, he co-produced
Roger Guenveur Smith's solo performance "Who Killed Bob Marley" at the Bootleg Theater in
Los Angeles. Coppet is the creator of the show "From slavery to freedom (Speeches and poems on colonialism and slavery)" produced for the first time in
French Guiana, then at the
City Hall of Paris and for the U.S. Embassy in Paris. In 2010, Coppet was in the movie "
Orpailleur" by
Marc Barrat. The same year for the Spanish cinema in "Aguila Roja" (dir. Jose Ramon Ayerra, prod. Globomedia), Coppet played the part of Claude Acheron, El Mosquetero. 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 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. == Partial filmography ==