Joséphine Jobert (born 24 April 1985 in Paris) 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 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 Pied-Noir family from Algeria, and her mother's
ancestry is Martiniquaise, Spanish and Chinese. Jobert comes from a
family of 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.From 2008 to 2014, Jobert had steady work in
various French television series. She took on her first
English-language role as Detective Sergeant Florence Cassell in the
BBC One series Death in Paradise at the beginning of its fourth season
in 2015. She left the show for "personal and professional reasons"
after episode six of the eighth series in 2019, but will return for
the tenth series in 2021.
and singer, best known for playing Detective Sergeant Florence Cassell
in the BBC One series Death in Paradise.Jobert was born 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 Pied-Noir family from Algeria, and her mother's
ancestry is Martiniquaise, Spanish and Chinese. Jobert comes from a
family of 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.From 2008 to 2014, Jobert had steady work in
various French television series. She took on her first
English-language role as Detective Sergeant Florence Cassell in the
BBC One series Death in Paradise at the beginning of its fourth season
in 2015. She left the show for "personal and professional reasons"
after episode six of the eighth series in 2019, but will return for
the tenth series in 2021.
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