VIDEO: Audra McDonald Lends Her Singing Voice in Disney Jr's DOC MCSTUFFINS

Multiple Grammy and Tony Award-winner Audra McDonald lends her voice to a tiny tin airplane pilot named Bess, a historical toy created in the likeness of the famous African-American female pilot, BESSIE Coleman, on the hit Disney Junior animated series DOC MCSTUFFINS. In the clips below, Doc and the toys help Bess get back into shape after her joints become rusty!

With a record six Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards, and a long list of other accolades to her name, McDonald is among today's most highly regarded performers. McDonald grew up in Fresno and received her classical vocal training at The Juilliard School.

A year after graduating, she won her first Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical for Carouselat Lincoln Center Theater. She received two additional TONY AWARDS in the featured actress category over the next four years for her performances in the Broadway premieres of Terrence McNally's Master Class (1996) and his musical Ragtime (1998), earning her an unprecedented three TONY AWARDS before the age of 30. In 2004, she won her fourth Tony, starring alongside Sean "Diddy" Combs in A Raisin in the Sun, and in 2012 she won her fifth--and her first in the leading actress category--for her role in The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess.

In 2014, she made Broadway history and became the Tony Awards' most decorated performer when she won her sixth award for her portrayal of Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill. In addition to setting the record for most competitive wins by an actor, she also became the first person to receive awards in all four acting categories.

McDonald's other theater credits include The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004), 110 in the Shade (2007), and her Shakespeare in the Park debut in Twelfth Night (2009).