Background Actor profile

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How do I create an account as a background actor?
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Jamarious Montgomery

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gromit82, Champion

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Jamarious: The first thing to do is to clarify whether you mean an IMDb account, or an IMDb name page.

Anybody can register an IMDb account, whether or not they are in the entertainment industry. To do this, one would go to https://www.imdb.com/registration/signin and click on "Create a New Account". But that just makes you an IMDb user -- someone who can do things like vote on movie ratings, participate in polls, and create lists. It doesn't have anything to do with getting film and television credits listed on IMDb. For example, I have an IMDb account, and my user page is at https://www.imdb.com/user/ur1879600/, but you will notice that it doesn't have anywhere to list any film or television credits, of which I don't have any to list anyway. 

More likely you are looking to have an IMDb name page, which would look something like https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0177896/, which is where a person would have their film and television credits listed.

In order to have a name page, usually one must have at least one role in a film, television program, or videogame for which one received their name displayed on screen in the credits. If you already have received such an on-screen credit, and the title is already included in the database, you can go to the page for that title, click "Edit page", and submit your name to the Cast of that title. As you go through the process, you will have to acknowledge that your name is a new name to the database. Once your submission is processed (which might take a few days), an IMDb name page will automatically be created with your name and your credit on it.

If you have an on-screen credit, but the title is not in the database yet but ought to be, please let us know what title it is, and the contributors or staff here can advise you better.

Since you are a background actor, it's possible that you might not yet have received an on-screen credit yet. In that case, you would not be eligible for a regular IMDb name page until you get an on-screen credit. 

(Note: IMDb used to indicate that people who did not have eligible credits yet could get name pages by purchasing a paid subscription to IMDbPro. I don't know if that is still considered a viable option, but I am mentioning it here as a possibility. Hopefully someone else will confirm either way.)

I hope this helps. Good luck!
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Phil G

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In that case, you would not be eligible for a regular IMDb name page until you get an on-screen credit.
I may be wrong, but I thought you could create a name page (without Pro) with only (eligible) uncredited listings, but the catch is that the uncredited listings would not be displayed until or unless an eligible credited listing is also added.

Probably not a very useful option in this case - it always confuses me when I come across pages that only have hidden listings and makes it much harder to identify the individual.