P.J. . They have two children and were divorced in 1998. Still active in television and film, P.J. manages not to let her fans down, but keeps them interested in her work, which keeps on getting better, making her one of the most versatile actresses of her time.
In her death scene in Carrie , she is knocked unconscious by a wild water hose; in actuality, the hose tore her eardrum and she is really unconscious for that scene.
John Carpenter , wanted her for his film Halloween after seeing Carrie . He wrote the part of Lynda especially for her because of the way she said the word "totally."
Sang "Rock and Roll High School" with Ramones at one of their concerts.
Lived in several foreign countries while growing up.
Originally wanted to be Ambassador to the Soviet Union.
Has one son, Sky and one daughter, Ashley , with Skip Holm.
Did her screen test for Carrie with John Travolta. He loved her performance so much, he made sure she got a part in his television movie The Boy in the Plastic Bubble .
Her father, Cornelis Johannes Hardon II, was Dutch. Her mother, Nancy, was American, and was born in New Jersey, to Jewish immigrants from Russia and Austria.
She wore a red baseball cap to her audition for Carrie , which director Brian De Palma loved. He told her to bring it with her when they started shooting. The first thing he said to her on the set was, "Did you bring your red baseball hat?" She ended up wearing that hat for the majority of the film.
Rock group Local H named their 2004 album, "Whatever Happened to P.J. Soles?" after her. It includes a song about her cult celebrity status titled simply "P.J. Soles".
Interviewed in the book "Invasion of the B-Girls" by Jewel Shepard.
P.J. has two children: a son, Jeffrey Sky Holm, a 2005 graduate of the United States Merchant Marine Academy and is an Officer serving with the United States Coast Guard and a daughter, Ashley Brooke Holm, a 2010 graduate of U.C. Irvine with a degree in English/Creative Writing, is teaching yoga and in the band Jo Nash with composer John Corlis.
Ranked #4 on Maxims "Hottest Women of Horror Movies" list.
(October 2003) Divorced now from Skip Holm , she retired for the most part to raise her two children. P.J. is presently producing an in-development movie for Paramount and is considering a remake of her hit movie Rock n Roll High School .
(August 2003) Appearing as "Riff Randell" in The Donnas music video "Too Bad About Your Girl".
I am so happy that every generation still tunes into most of the classic,and cult films I was lucky to be a part of.
Everybody thought I was a California girl, and I felt I had to work,harder than most people. I went to a place in my mind from having,watched other movies, so for me it was a little more challenging than a,lot of people probably realize.
