If you watched television

in the ’90s, you probably saw the infomercials featuring Jamaican “psychic” Miss Cleo. The actress who portrayed her, Youree Dell Harris, died at 53 on Tuesday.

FORT LAUDERDALE — The actress who won fame playing Jamaican psychic Miss Cleo, claiming to know callers’ futures in ubiquitous TV infomercials and commercials in the ’90s, has died of cancer. Youree Dell Harris, 53, died Tuesday in Palm Beach, her lawyer, William J. Cone Jr. said.

The Los Angeles-born Harris was a struggling actress when the Psychic Readers Network hired her in the late 1990s to play Miss Cleo. She adopted her family’s Jamaican heritage for the role, persuading viewers to call for allegedly free psychic readings.

In one spot, she reads tarot cards before telling a caller the father of her baby is the “one who is very unpleasant and had another girlfriend while he was sleeping with you but you knew that.” The commercials ended with the tagline, “Call me now!”

The feds said those “free” calls cost consumers about $1 billion. The Federal Trade Commission said the psychic service promised free readings, but people calling a toll-free number were directed to a 900 number charging $4.99 per minute. The agency said nearly 6 million people were charged an average of about $60 apiece. The Psychic Readers Network’s parent company forgave $500 million in charges in a 2002 settlement.