Joséphine Jobert

Joséphine Jobert born 24 April 1985 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 PiedNoir family from Algeria and her mothers 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