My movie's production person still hasn't added my name yet and my character (and other actors), so do I still wait for them or can I add it myself? Should I call my agent and ask them to do it?
I was thinking about adding myself, but cancelled it. I also noticed that they flip flop my name ie my first name was last and the last first.

I've never done this myself, but I'm pretty sure you can, though it may cost money. I have done background work on major films and browsed the film's IMDB site to discover that fellow background players were in the movie's castlist and I am sure that they had to have done that themselves.

Hope this helps!

You can add yourself to projects on IMDB, I've done it before. It doesn't cost anything, I think the production company just has to ok it.

if you alrady have credits on imdb then just go ahead and add it yourself. you may have to creat a log in account and it may take a little bit of time to remind them , but persistence will work at getting those credits to show up.

you can add yourself. Go to bottom of page and there is a button to push. (you need to log-in though).

DON"T BOTHER ADDING CREDITS AS AN EXTRA... they will be posted initially and then deleted later after imdb does some research

PS it takes a LONG time for credits to show up...sometimes months. Be patient

I know right now it's in post-prod., they're working on the special effects.

You can add yourself but I would only do it for principal parts that the prod. co. has not bothered to list. Adding extra work is stupid-those in the business will know it is just extra work. If your page is full of "credits" like 'audience member', 'football fan', 'pedestrian', 'club goer', etc. it is clear you are brodcasting that you are a career extra. Sometimes they get removed later and sometimes not. In some cases the prodco wants the credits in the film end roll to match IMDB, other times they don't care.

They actually (the prod. co.) has added extras, but mine is a featured extra with under 5. Is also a character that has a name in the script, Like the name "soccer mom's kid" etc.

This was awhile back, but I used to add all the cast and crew for independent films I'd done that made the cut on were on the IMDb, and all the cast (that I knew) for big films I'd done that were not yet out. So you can add stuff.

IMDB allows people to post uncredited work -- but I think they're starting to crack down on those, which is unfair, because sometimes people do not crack into the next level of 5 and under or jump into starring roles after a year or two of background work, it just doesn't happen all the time like that, folks.

So I would not consider it a "career backgrounder" as someone here put it. It's more of, is there a lot of filming and work going on? The answer, partly due to the writer's strike that recently ended, is NO. The people in SAG or AFTRA are going to get top priority and IF the CD still needs more to fill, only THEN will they go to non-union people. It's getting harder with SAG changing their rules about who can get into the union too, so it's a lot more jumping through rings than it was say ten years ago.