Trivia

In her death scene in the horror movie Carrie (1976), she is knocked unconscious by a wild water hose; in real life, the hose tore her eardrum.

Did her screen test for the horror movie Carrie (1976) with John Travolta. He loved her performance so much, he made sure she got a role in his television movie The Boy in the Plastic Bubble (1976).

She wore a red baseball cap to her audition for the horror movie Carrie (1976), which director Brian De Palma loved. He told her to bring the cap 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 movie.

John Carpenter wanted her for his horror movie Halloween (1978) after seeing the horror movie Carrie (1976). He wrote the role of Lynda van der Klok especially for her because of the way she said the word "totally".

P.J. has two children: a son, Jeffrey Sky Holm (born 1983), 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 (born 1988), 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.

Resided in several foreign countries while growing up.

Sang "Rock and Roll High School" with the rock group Ramones at one of their concerts.

Divorced from Skip Holm, she retired for the most part to raise her two children. P.J. is currently producing an in-development movie for Paramount Pictures and is considering a remake of her hit movie Rock 'n' Roll High School (1979). (October 2003)

Originally wanted to be Ambassador to the Soviet Union.

Ranked #4 on Maxim magazine's "Hottest Women of Horror Movies" list.

The rock group Local H named their album "Whatever Happened to P.J. Soles?" (2004) after her. The album includes a song about her cult celebrity status titled simply "P.J. Soles".

She appeared as Riff Randell in the music video "Too Bad About Your Girl" by the rock group The Donnas. (August 2003)

Interviewed in the book "Invasion of the B-Girls" by Jewel Shepard.

Her father, Cornelis Johannes Hardon II, was Dutch. Her mother, Nancy, was American, and was born in New Jersey, to Jewish emigrants from Lithuania and Austria.

She has appeared in two films that have been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: Carrie (1976) & Halloween (1978).