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Stany Coppet is a French actor from French Guiana.
In 2003, he left Paris to New York 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. Back in France, he appeared on stage in the play The Duel of Shadows portraying Chevalier de Saint-George, also known as the "Black Mozart".
Coppet is the creator of the show From slavery to freedom (Speeches and poems on colonialism and slavery) produced for the first time in Cayenne, 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 and plays the role of Jeff, and then in Mortem directed by Eric Atlan, he is Aken. The same year for the Spanish cinema in Aguila Roja directed by Jose Ramon Ayerra and produced by Globomedia, Coppet plays the role 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. He also works with the director Jean-Marc Thérin in the series of TF1Research Section in the role of Roberto Arias, Professor of Argentine tango. In 2011, in a France 2 production Eloa Production, Stany Coppet plays the role of General André Rigaud in the biopic of 2x90 'dedicated to Toussaint Louverture. For the BBC / France Television co-production Death In Paradise he played the role of Pierre the owner of a little restaurant by the beach of St. Mary Island.