Youree Dell Harris, best known for portraying the Jamaican psychic Miss Cleo in late-1990s infomercials, died in Palm Beach, Florida, of cancer. She was 53. TV psychic Miss Cleo dies at 53 https://t.co/TTxtEWUEoc pic.twitter.com/jN4uua1x1l — Variety (@Variety) July 27, 2016 Born in Los Angeles, Harris was hired by the Psychic Readers Network in the late 1990s to play Miss Cleo.