Joséphine Jobert

Joséphine Jobert is a French actress and singer. She is best known to English-language audiences for playing Detective Sergeant Florence Cassell in the BBC One series Death in Paradise (2015–2024) and her lead role as a police officer in Saint-Pierre (2025–present).

Early life and education Joséphine Jobert was born in Paris, France. 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, including her paternal aunt Marlène Jobert and cousins Eva Green and Elsa Lunghini.

In 1997, aged 12, Jobert moved with her parents to Montreal, 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.

Career From 2008 to 2014, Jobert appeared in several French television series.

In 2015, 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 2019, she left the show for "personal and professional reasons" after episode six of the eighth season, but returned for the tenth season in 2021. She was also in the 11th season and made her final regular appearance on the fourth episode of that season. She reprised her role two years later for a guest stint in series 13.

Since 2024, Jobert has appeared as Deputy Chief Geneviève “Arch” Archambault in the CBC Television series Saint-Pierre.

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: Villa Karayib: Kannelle Benneteau Meadow 2015–2019, 2021–2022, 2024: Death in Paradise: Detective Sergeant Florence Cassell (series 4–8, 10–11 and 13) Deputy Chief Geneviève "Arch" Archambault (lead role)

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)