"the whole point was two things: keeping people on the phone as long as people what they wanted to hear" Harris was approached by Access Resource Services while working at an event in a Pompano Beach, Florida mall and agreed to appear in an ad in 2000. Harris was using the Jamaican accent when she moved to Florida and began working as a tarot-reading psychic for a telemarketing center.
In 1997, Harris moved to Florida, met Steven Feder and Peter (Stotz Stoltz Stolz), Fort Lauderdale cousins behind Access Resource Services, doing business as Psychic Readers Network and took a call-taker job as reader No. In January 1993, Steven Feder and Peter (Stotz Stoltz Stolz ) started Psychic Advisors Network, a company to take market share from Psychic Friends Network using Philip Michael Thomas, Billy Dee Williams and Catherine Oxenberg. Some of the cast of her productions claimed that they were never paid, and that Harris "told her cast members she had bone cancer" and "her medical costs would prevent her from paying people immediately", but she wrote each actor and crew member a letter telling him or her how much money she owed them. Her last project, Supper Club Cafe in 1997, was not successful, and she "left town with a trail of debts and broken promises" according to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. In 1997, Harris as " Ree Perris", produced and performed two plays with the Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center in Seattle, Summer Rhapsody and Supper Club Cafe. In 1996, Harris as " Ree Perris", wrote a play entitled For Women Only, playing a Jamaican woman named "Cleo", in Seattle. Seattle Post-Intelligencer 's Dorothy Parvaz reported that University of Southern California found no records that Harris had enrolled for four classes in 1980, as reported by People magazine. She attended, as a boarder, Ramona Convent Secondary School, a Catholic girls' school in Alhambra, California. Youree Harris was born on August 12, 1962, at Los Angeles County Hospital to Alisa Teresa Hopis and David Harris, and raised in a Catholic Afro-Caribbean family.
Harris used various aliases, including Ree Perris, Youree Cleomili, Youree Dell Harris, Youree Perris, Rae Dell Harris, Cleomili Perris Youree, and Cleomili Harris. Youree Dell Harris (August 12, 1962 – July 26, 2016) was an American television personality and actress best known for portraying Miss Cleo, a spokeswoman for a psychic pay-per-call-minute service called Psychic Readers Network, in a series of television commercials that aired from 1997 to 2003.