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Joséphine Jobert

Joséphine Jobert is a French actress and singer, best known for playing Detective Sergeant Florence Cassell in the BBC One series Death in Paradise. Jobert was born in Paris to a French family, the daughter of Véronique Mucret Rouveyrollis, a photographer, musician, writer, actress, and director, and Charles Jobert, a camera operator and director of photography. Her father is from a Sephardic Jewish and Pied-Noir family from Algeria, and her mother's ancestry is Martiniquaise, Spanish and Chinese. Jobert comes from a family of performing artists, which includes her paternal aunt Marlène Jobert and cousins Eva Green and Elsa Lunghini. In 1997, aged 12, she moved with her parents to Montreal, Quebec, Canada, for eight years, where she studied singing and acting, and took her first steps into television. With her friends and her parents, she participated in the creation of songs, videos, a web series, and a television series on the internet. She attended drama workshops by Stéphane Belugou as well as Coda Music School.

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Death in Paradise

2011
as DS Florence Cassell

Foudre

2007
as Alice Watson

Saint-Pierre

2025
as Geneviève "Arch" Archambault

Cut

2013
as Victoire Vila