Virginia actor Tim Reid directed Call Me Now: The Rise and Fall of Miss Cleo the psychic

Tim Reid directed the Lifetime film Call Me Now: The Rise and Fall of Miss Cleo.Photo byWikipedia

Tim Reid directs Lifetime film

Actor Tim Reid is best known for portraying Venus Fly Trap in WKRP in Cincinnati. He was born in Norfolk, Virginia, on December 19, 1944, and raised in Chesapeake. He and his wife, Daphne Maxwell Reid, built New Millenium Studios in 1997 in Petersburg.

The couple sold the studio in 2015 because there was not enough incentive to make films in the Commonwealth. Reid's latest project as a director is Call Me Now: The Rise and Fall of Miss Cleo, the television psychic.

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Miss Cleo's personal life

Born Youree Dell Harris on August 12, 1962, in Los Angeles to Jamaican parents. Harris began work for the Psychic Readers Network under the name Cleo in 1997.

She appeared as a television infomercial psychic in which she claimed to be a shaman from Jamaica.^[8][18] Her employers' website also stated that Harris had been born in Trelawny, Jamaica, and grown up there.

Harris was an actor and did voice work as Auntie in 2002 in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. A point came where people mocked Cleo. I recall a local church Easter play where a character mimicked Miss Cleo by saying in an accent, "Call me now for a free psychic reading."

She died in Hospice at 53 from colorectal cancer on July 26, 2016 Call Me Now: The Rise and Fall of Miss Cleo premiered on August 10 on Lifetime and can now be streamed.