The next time you’re wasting time at imdb.com (International Movie Database), search sophomore Miryam Coppersmith’s name. You’d be surprised at what comes up.

Coppersmith started acting at the age of three, when she marched right up to producer Ed Koch (not to be confused with the mayor) while at dinner with her family. Koch told her mother that he would love to put her on Broadway and an eager Coppersmith soon had a manager and an acting coach. Her first feature film was “Finding Isabel,” and although she had a very small role with no lines, the shoot location was extremely convenient—the student directors used Coppersmith’s creepy attic as a set for the film.

Her career got a jump-start while reading a monologue about a Catholic schoolgirl at an agents’ symposium—she has since worked with Abrams Artists Agency. Coppersmith has had a variety of different roles in a large range of genres, from TV drama to short film. “Sometimes it’s good to be short and normal-sized,” Coppersmith said. “I’m not a cookie-cutter girl, you know, blonde, so a lot of the stuff I’ve done has been very odd.” She has played a Red Hook street urchin, as well as the daughter of a member of the mob.

When she was nine, Coppersmith joined “The Sopranos” and played Bobby ‘Bacala’ Baccalieri’s daughter Sophia in the fifth and sixth seasons. Coppersmith landed her role on “The Sopranos” just “like any other audition,” Coppersmith said. After getting two callbacks, “it was kinda exciting for me […] because I’d never been at such a huge audition where I was that close to getting it,” Coppersmith said. In one episode, Sophia’s step-mother gets an assault charge after beating up another mother at Sophia’s soccer game. Coppersmith’s stint on “The Sopranos” lasted into the beginning of last year, when the show ended its six-season run.

In 2003, she was in the short, silent black-and-white film “Off Hour” with actor Adrian Grenier of “Entourage” and “one of my favorite directors of all time, Daniel Frei,” Coppersmith said. Coppersmith played a street urchin who bikes around Red Hook, Brooklyn. This film was more challenging for her because “I had to actually get into character. When you’re a child actor, a lot of the time you get cast as you, or just a kid,” Coppersmith said. Although Coppersmith has worked with many famous actors, she has never really been star-struck, mainly because she was so young when she worked with them. While filming “Off Hour” she had “no idea who Adrian Grenier was,” Coppersmith said. While working on “The Sopranos,” Coppersmith was more impressed with the actors’ skill than their fame. “Basically I sat back and watched and learned from these really great actors that I got a chance to work with,” Coppersmith said.

At Stuyvesant, Coppersmith has played Mrs. Peterson in last year’s fall musical “Bye Bye Birdie,” as well as a minor role in this year’s “Urinetown.” Last year, she also directed a one-act she had written in eighth grade. “Working with Miryam in plays is a great experience and a lot of fun. She has so much respect and passion for good theater,” wrote sophomore Emily Martin, who has been in Stuyvesant Theater Community (STC) productions with Coppersmith, in an e-mail interview. Martin has found it a great experience “to work with someone who has so much talent and thoughtfulness regarding their craft,” she wrote.

Currently, however, “school comes first,” Coppersmith said, which is why Coppersmith chose Stuyvesant over Professional Performing Arts School, a school in which students are able to continue and strengthen their careers in acting. Though she still goes out for auditions, Coppersmith wants to have a normal high school experience and participate in extracurricular activities. She is clearly having no problems doing this, as she is involved in both the speech team (oral interpretation) and the STC. Coppersmith enjoys acting because she can express herself in different ways, but she has also been able to do this through her creative writing (such as her one-act).“I definitely want to go into acting in the future,” Coppersmith said. “I can picture myself going into a Shakespeare company and staying there for a while.”