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Chad Michael Murray (born December 24th 1991) is an American singer-songwriter, actor, writer, model and spokesperson who rose to prominence in 2008 as one the two lead singers in American pop boyband *NSYNC.

The group released three studio albums and a holiday album between 2008 and 2012 when Murray decided to quit to launch his own solo career in both music and acting. The group had sold 55 million albums worldwide during his time in the group. Murray released his solo debut album "Justified" in 2012 which sold over 10 million copies worldwide.

In 2013, he put his music career on hold when he joined the cast of new The CW teen drama One Tree Hill as the character Lucas Scott. The show became a success for the channel and has been renewed through the 2016-17 US television season with Murray signed on to play Lucas until the end of season four. Murray has also starred in the successful feature films "Freaky Friday" (2013), "A Cinderella Story" (2014) and "House Of Wax" (2015).

In May 2015, it was announced that Murray along with Paul Scheuring and his One Tree Hill co-star James Lafferty had written a show that had been picked up by FOX for the 2015-16 television season. The show will debut in August 2015 and will air for an initial 9 episodes.

Early Life
Murray was born in Buffalo, New York. He is the son of Rex Murray, an air traffic controller, and was abandoned by his mother when he was just 10 years old. He has three brothers (aged 20, 16 and 13) along with one half-sister (aged 12) and one half-brother (aged 4). He has stated in many interviews the main reason he took the role of Lucas Scott in One Tree Hill was abandonment issues.

Murray attended Clarence High School in Clarence, New York. He became a fan of literature, and was heavily involved in playing football. Whilst he was at High School. In his late teens, he broke his nose. This led to reports during his career that he had received a nose job. Murray clarified in a 2014 interview, "I got jumped in a Burger King when I was 18 and had my nose put on the other side of my face. It was three guys -- what the hell was I supposed to do? The doctors didn't even bother running X-rays. They just reset it. But it wasn't a nose job -- I hate the fact that people say it was a nose job!"

As Writer
In November 2003, Murray began writing a script with his One Tree Hill co-star James Lafferty. The show, based around a prison break, was shopped around networks and after negotiations with The CW, Murray and Lafferty pulled away from the talks due to The CW's worries about the production costs. After meeting with Paul Scheuring, the trio re-wrote the scripts and was shopped to the four major networks. The show was eventually picked up by FOX to air nine episodes which was later extended to 22. Prison Break debuted with 10.5 million viewers in its first episode, growing to 12.2 million in its finale. The series continued for a further three seasons and in a rare feat, the average audience grew throughout with its final episode, aired in August 2009, was viewed by over 24 million people. In 2015, it was announced that the show had been revived for a ten episode event season which will air in 2016. Murray, Lafferty and Scheuring all returned to write the show with Murray and Lafferty serving as Executive Producers.

Following the end of Prison Break, the duo returned in 2010 with the new series Human Target which also aired on Fox. Murray and Lafferty were co-writers and executive producers of the show which ran for 25 episodes over 2 seasons between 2010 and 2011. Fox had offered the pair a third season which would have consisted of a 22 episode season in 2011-12 due to a new show being picked up by ABC. Off The Map, a medical show that aired in the midseason, lasted just for just one season as the pair again declined a second season due to a new show.

In January 2011, Scandal debuted on ABC. Murray and Lafferty were joined by Heather Mitchell to write the series which was quickly picked up for a second season. Viewership of the show has risen to as high as 17.47 million for the first episode of season five from the premiere in 2011 which achieved 7.3 million viewers. For the fifth season, both Murray and Lafferty departed the writing team to write the Prison Break revival but remained as executive producers and Lafferty returned to direct the second, third and fourth episodes. The duo will return for the sixth season due to Mitchell and their replacement Zahir McGhee announced their departure to work on a new show.

From September 2014, MuLa Productions owned Thursday nights on ABC when How To Get Away With Murder, written by Murray and Lafferty, which aired in Scandal's 10pm slot with the former moving to 9pm. The show was successful and picked up for a second season in 2015-16 but the duo were joined by Peter Nowalk to write season two due to an increasing workload. In the 2015-16 midseason, another MuLa Productions show The Catch, executive produced by Murray and Lafferty, will take the 10pm slot.