Chad Michael Murray is an American actor, writer and former model. He played the lead role of Lucas Scott in The WB/CW teen drama series One Tree Hill, and recurring roles as Tristin DuGray on Gilmore Girls (2000–01), Charlie Todd on Dawson's Creek (2001–02), and Edgar Evernever on Riverdale (2019), all on the same network.

Lucas Eugene Scott is a fictional character and the main protagonist from The WB/CW television series One Tree Hill created by Mark Schwahn and portrayed by Chad Michael Murray. Lucas is a talented basketball player and writer. He is rival to half-brother Nathan Scott and the relationship between the two has become one of the series’ cores, changing a lot and evolving to the point the two will become best friends and eventually begin considering each other true brothers. While striving for his dreams, he must balance his tumultuous relationships with his father, Dan Scott, and is initially the centre of a love triangle designed between him and best friends and female leads of the series Peyton Sawyer, whom he’s actually loved since childhood, and Brooke Davis. In the end, Peyton has turned out to be the one for him, no matter what, while their relationship has become another of the show’s central themes. The third female lead, Haley James, is his best friend since childhood.