Question:  "I Am What I Am" is a song performed by the character of Albin Mougeotte, first played by an actor of what nationality?

full_context: Document 1: George Hearn: George Hearn (born June 18, 1934) is an American actor and singer, primarily in Broadway musical theatre.
Document 2: Torch Song Trilogy: Torch Song Trilogy is a collection of three plays by Harvey Fierstein rendered in three acts: "International Stud", "Fugue in a Nursery", and "Widows and Children First!" The story centers on Arnold Beckoff, a Jewish homosexual, drag queen, and torch singer who lives in New York City in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The four-hour play begins with a soliloquy in which he explains his cynical disillusionment with love.
Document 3: Harvey Fierstein: Harvey Forbes Fierstein (born June 6, 1954) is an American actor, playwright, and voice actor. Fierstein has won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his own play "Torch Song Trilogy" (about a gay drag-performer and his quest for true love and family) and the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical for playing Edna Turnblad in "Hairspray". He also wrote the book for the musical "La Cage aux Folles", for which he won the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical, and wrote the book for the Tony Award-winning "Kinky Boots". He was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 2007.
Document 4: Christopher Jackson (actor): Christopher Neal Jackson (born September 30, 1975) is an American actor, singer, musician, and composer best known for his roles in Broadway theatre. Specifically, Jackson is known for starring alongside Lin-Manuel Miranda in Miranda's original productions of "In The Heights" in 2008 and "Hamilton" in 2015; he also had a singing role in Disney's "Moana" in 2016. Jackson was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical for his role as George Washington in "Hamilton".
Document 5: I've Gotta Be Me: "I've Gotta Be Me" is a popular song that appeared in the Broadway musical "Golden Rainbow", which starred Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gormé. The musical opened in New York City at the Shubert Theatre on February 4, 1968, and closed less than a year later, on January 11, 1969. The music and lyrics for the musical were by Walter Marks and were composed in 1967; the production featured a book by Ernest Kinoy. This song was listed in the musical as "I've Got to Be Me", and it was sung by Lawrence's character Larry Davis at the end of the first act. Lawrence released the song as a single in 1967, and the following year it hit number six on the "Billboard" Easy Listening chart, with little or no support from traditional Top 40 radio.
Document 6: Jerry Orbach: Jerome Bernard "Jerry" Orbach (October 20, 1935 – December 28, 2004) was an American actor and singer, described at the time of his death as "one of the last" bona fide" leading men of the Broadway musical and global celebrity on television" and a "versatile stage and film actor".
Document 7: George Maran: George Alfred Maran (July 25, 1926 – Nov 26, 2011) was an American opera, oratorio, and concert tenor. Born near Boston, Massachusetts. Maran attended Harvard University where he and his voice came to the attention of people such as Leonard Bernstein and Paul Hindemith. He first drew international attention when he won the “Mozart-Medaille”(Mozart Medal) from the Mozarteum International Foundation in Salzburg in 1956 on Mozart’s 200th birthday. The same year, and the next forty years thereafter, he was a soloist at the Opera in Darmstadt, Germany. Even so, he continued singing all over Europe and the United States, the world premiere of A Midsummer Night's Dream (opera) with Benjamin Britten conducting as a prime example. He has sung many wide-ranging and varied genres as soloist in opera, operetta, oratorio, and on the concert stage.
Document 8: Robert Goulet: Robert Gerard Goulet (November 26, 1933 October 30, 2007) was an American singer and actor of French-Canadian ancestry. Goulet was born and raised in Lawrence, Massachusetts. Cast as Sir Lancelot and originating the role in the 1960 Broadway musical "Camelot" starring opposite established Broadway stars Richard Burton and Julie Andrews, he achieved instant recognition with his performance and interpretation of the song "If Ever I Would Leave You", which became his signature song. His debut in "Camelot" marked the beginning of a stage, screen, and recording career. A Grammy Award, Tony Award, and an Emmy Award winner, his career spanned almost six decades.
Document 9: I Am Gloria Gaynor: I Am Gloria Gaynor is the eleventh studio album by Gloria Gaynor, released in 1984 by Chrysalis Records. The most notable song on the album was Gloria Gaynor's cover of "I Am What I Am" from the musical "La Cage Aux Folles". It reached #82 on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs charts.
Document 10: I Am What I Am (Broadway musical song): "I Am What I Am" is a song originally introduced in the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical "La Cage aux Folles" (1983–1987). The song is the finale number of the musical's first act, and performed by the character of Albin Mougeotte, first played by George Hearn. The song was composed in 1983 by Jerry Herman, an openly gay man.
Document 11: George Strait: George Harvey Strait (born May 18, 1952) is an American country music singer, songwriter, actor, and music producer. He is known as the "King of Country" and is considered one of the most influential and popular recording artists of all time. He is known for his neotraditionalist country style, cowboy look, and being one of the first and main country artists to bring country music back to its roots and away from the pop country era in the 1980s.
Document 12: Norm Lewis: Norm Lewis (born June 2, 1963) is an American actor and baritone singer. He has appeared in Europe, on Broadway, in film, television, recordings and regional theatre. Productions that he has been involved in include "Dessa Rose", "Miss Saigon", "The Wild Party", and several others.
Document 13: La Cage aux Folles (film): La Cage aux Folles is a 1978 Franco-Italian comedy film and the first film adaptation of Jean Poiret's 1973 play of the same name. It is co-written and directed by Édouard Molinaro and stars Ugo Tognazzi and Michel Serrault.
Document 14: La Cage aux Folles (musical): La Cage aux Folles (] ) is a musical with a book by Harvey Fierstein and lyrics and music by Jerry Herman. Based on the 1973 French play of the same name by Jean Poiret, it focuses on a gay couple: Georges, the manager of a Saint-Tropez nightclub featuring drag entertainment, and Albin, his romantic partner and star attraction, and the farcical adventures that ensue when Georges's son, Jean-Michel, brings home his fiancée's ultra-conservative parents to meet them. "La cage aux folles" literally means "the cage of mad women". However, "folles" is also a slang term for effeminate homosexuals (queens).
Document 15: Phillip Boykin: Phillip Boykin (sometimes credited as Phillip Lamar Boykin) is an American bass-baritone, broadway, gospel, jazz and opera singer, film and stage actor. In 2017 he was featured in the Broadway revival of "Sunday in the Park with George" and made Broadway history as the first African-American Boatman/Lee Randolph while reopening Broadway's newest and oldest theater at the time The Hudson Theater New York City which played it last Broadway show in 1968. Phillip will play the role of Tonton Julian in the Revival of "Once On This Island". He was also featured in On the Town at the Lyric Theater. He was nominated for the Tony Award, as well as the Drama Desk and Outer Critic Circle Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical for his role as Crown in the Broadway revival of (Porgy and Bess). He was awarded the Theater World Award for his Outstanding Broadway debut. He is the founder and director of "The NYGospel Brothers" a Gospel Quartet that travels around the world spreading the good news. One of ten children, Boykin grew up in Greenville, South Carolina. He started studies in Opera Performance at South Carolina State College before transferring to the North Carolina School of the Arts. He left NCSA in 1990 and moved to the Hartt School of the University of Hartford where he received his Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance in 1995. He later studied toward a Master's degree in Opera and Jazz Vocals from Howard University. He was seen on the big screen in Freedom starring Cuba Gooding Jr., Top Five starring Chris Rock and Easter Mysteries written by Tony Award Winning Broadway producer John O’Boyle.
ground_truth: American