Chris Coppola was born in Brooklyn New York. His family moved to California during his childhood. He graduated from CSULB. His last semester at Long Beach he stumbled into acting. He registered for the wrong class.

Moved to San Francisco after graduation where he got a job with the world famous special fx house ILM.

Eventually he moved back to LA and went to the Lost studio to study acting. He studied everything from Pinter to Shanley to Chekhov to Shakespeare.

He's worked with Tom Hanks, Robert Zemekis, Al Pacino, Anthony Hopkins, Brendan Gleason, John Malkovich, Robin Wright, Miles Teller and Nicholas Winding Refn.

He's married to Jill Coppola lives in Los Angeles.