Joséphine Jobert (born 24 April 1985) is a French actress and singer, best known for playing Detective Sergeant Florence Cassell in the

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series '' Death in Paradise''.

Biography

Jobert was born in

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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

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and

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family from

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, and her mother's ancestry is Martiniquaise,

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and

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. Jobert comes from a family of performing artists, which includes her paternal aunt

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and cousins

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and

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. In 1997, aged 12, she moved with her parents to

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, Canada, for eight years, where she studied singing and acting, and took her first steps into

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. 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.

Career

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

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 season in 2019, but returned for the tenth season in 2021. She is also in the 11th season and made her final appearance on the fourth episode of that series.

Filmography

Television

* 2007–2009 : Our pension years : Amel Habib (seasons 1-3) * 2007–2011 : Lightning : Alice Watson * 2010 : My friends, my loves, my shit ... : Lou, a mechanic (Episode 2.06: All fire and flame) * 2012 : I was your age from Bruno Garcia : Yasmine * 2013 : Alice Nevers: The judge is a woman : Djamila (Episode 11.06: Amazon) * 2013–2014 : Under the sun of Saint-Tropez : Roxanne * 2013–2014 : Cut! : Victory Vila * 2014–ongoing: Villa Karayib : Kannelle Benneteau Meadow * 2015–2019, 2021–2022: ''Death in Paradise'' : Detective Sergeant Florence Cassell (series 4–8 and 10–11)

Film

* 2012 : Love Survey of Véronique Mucret Rouveyrollis Jo * 2013 : Words of Véronique Mucret Rouveyrollis : Esmeralda/Film-maker

Video

* 2003 : Big Star Patrick Marty * 2007 : For the life, single from the album Our pension years

Albums

* 2007 : Our pension years (soundtrack to the first season of the series namesake) * 2008 : Our board 2 years (soundtrack of the second season) * 2009 : Our pension 3 years (soundtrack to the third season)

References

External links

*
official twitter page
{{DEFAULTSORT:Jobert, Josephine 1985 births Living people Actresses from Paris French people of Algerian-Jewish descent French television actresses 21st-century French actresses French people of Chinese descent French expatriates in Canada French people of Martiniquais descent French people of Spanish descent French Sephardi Jews Mizrahi Jews